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love his quote.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. --Helen Keller

Subject: DailyGood: The Boy With An Incredible BrainTo: iamliesa@...Date: Thursday, November 27, 2008, 12:10 PM

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge. --Napolean Hill

Fact of the Day:This is an in-depth look at the astonishing mental capabilities of Tammet, born in Britain, and from a young age able to do extraordinary calculations in his head. Skeptics have thrown a number of challenges at him, for instance testing his ability to recite to 22,500 decimal points the calculation of Pi, as well as learning a language in a week. Tammet, in his gentle unassuming way, has passed all the tests and offers this concluding statement about the phenomenon of savants: "The line between profound talent and profound disability is a surprisingly thin one." [ more ]

Be The Change:Read more about Emmet on his website. [ more ]

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