“He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts – for support rather than for illumination.”
– Andrew Lang
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No barriers – J. Robert Oppenheimer
“There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any asssertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.”
– J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Tiny threads – Simone Signoret
“Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.”
– Simone Signoret
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Incompatible – George Levinger
“What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.”
– George Levinger
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Spoon feeding – E.M. Forster
“Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.”
– E.M. Forster
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Worst misfortunes – Honoré de Balzac
“Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.”
– Honoré de Balzac
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Difficulty – Edward R. Murrow
“Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.”
– Edward R. Murrow
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Slogans – Edward R. Murrow
“One major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.”
– Edward R. Murrow
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Silence and darkness – Hellen Keller
“I, who have never heard a sound, tell you there is no silence, and I, who have never seen a ray of light, tell you there is no darkness.”
– Hellen Keller
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Cage – Franz Kafka
“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
– Franz Kafka
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Accept it whole – Stewart O’Nan
“You couldn’t relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole – like the world, or the person you loved.”
– Stewart O’Nan
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Each other’s magnitude – Gwendolyn Brooks
“We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.”
– Gwendolyn Brooks
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Learning things – Terry Pratchett
“If you trust in yourself…and believe in your dreams…and follow your star… you’ll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren’t so lazy.”
– Terry Pratchett
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Start over – Chico Xavier
“Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning… Anyone can start over and make a new ending.”
– Chico Xavier
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Life – Anita Desai
“Isn’t it strange how life won’t flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forwards in a kind of flood?”
– Anita Desai