Evan Esar Quotes
Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.
Evan Esar
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Coming where I'm coming from, really, my family name isn't a pressure because, you know, music is not like sports, where you can go and do a hundred reps in a gym and come out and be all buffed up. Music is an expression of what's inside of you. And that's how I make music.
Damian Marley
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The Defense Department must do a better job of providing the best possible care for service women who are victims of sexual assault.
Louise Slaughter
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The background of the Negro culture is voodoo and magic; and the purposes the magic are control and power over God, man, nature and society. Voodoo and magic was the religion and life of America's Negro.
R.J. Rushdoony
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Pleasure without Champagne is purely artificial.
Oscar Wilde
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When it comes to sexuality, sensuality, self-representation, self-nurturance - America fails in those departments.
Shailene Woodley
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We can understand almost anything, but we can't understand how we understand.
Albert Einstein
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A full and candid admission of one's mistakes should make proof against its repetition.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The more you can remove the obstacles between you and the world as a woman, the easier and simpler life becomes.
Cate Blanchett
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So then the year is repeating its old story again. We are come once more, thank God! to its most charming chapter. The violets and the Mayflowers are as its inscriptions or vignettes. It always makes a pleasant impression on us, when we open again at these pages of the book of life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A virtuous man or woman who is determined to develop the Supreme Enlightened Mind, should thus develop it: I have to lead all living beings to put a stop to (reincarnation) and escape (suffering), and when they have been so led, not one of them in fact stops (reincarnating) or escapes suffering. Why? Because, if a Bodhisattva believes in the notion of an ego, a personality, or a living being, he is not a true Bodhisattva.
Gautama Buddha
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There were certainly those who rubbed their eyes in astonishment. But when we held a company discussion forum with Joschka Fischer, interest was high. Six hundred senior managers came to the meeting. In the end, there was tremendous applause for Fischer, because he offered a precise analysis of the challenges our industry faces worldwide.
Norbert Reithofer
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Barack Obama is Occupy Wall Street. Barrack Obama is plugged into that world. That's what he believes.
Monica Crowley
