Walter A. Shewhart Quotes
Postulate 1. All chance systems of causes are not alike in the sense that they enable us to predict the future in terms of the past.
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In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
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Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
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You see people in Hollywood trying to make blockbuster after blockbuster, but it's not possible. There's some god up there saying, 'You will fail now.' But I suppose that's true of us all.
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Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.
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Paris can be like the land of the Lotus-Eaters. You can't leave.
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I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.
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I'm proud of my decade-long fight to have all ophthalmologists re-certify, regardless of age.
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The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam!
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A stronger E.U. of defence makes NATO stronger.
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Every little girl wanted to be Natalie Wood, as did I.
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Society has not been set up in a way that allows women to go back to work after taking time off. Many women now have to work as well as do everything at home and no one can do everything. Society needs to find a way of relieving women.
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I always define egotistical thoughts as the thoughts I think other people have of me.
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My spine healed incorrectly. There were long periods when I'd be perfectly all right, and then there were many other times when I wasn't, when my back would give out and throw me down to the floor amid waves of nauseating pain.
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The script that I fell in love with and adored was 'Jane the Virgin'... but every line in the pilot was essentially, 'Why did you keep my daughter a secret all of these years?' I didn't know any direction my character was going - was it going to be a dramatic character, a comedic character? - I didn't know.
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Happiness isn't a position. It's a trajectory.
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I have found that the only thing that does bring you happiness is doing something good for somebody who is incapable of doing it for themselves.
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Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government.
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Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.
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The idea of getting to make a movie like the ones that impacted me as a child is my life's dream.
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It is one thing to understand the gospel but is quite another to experience the gospel in such a way that it fundamentally changes us and becomes the source of our identity and security.
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But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.
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But to cut off relations with an aggressor may often invite retaliation by armed action, and this would, in its turn, make necessary some form of collective self-defence by the loyal members of the League.
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Postulate 1. All chance systems of causes are not alike in the sense that they enable us to predict the future in terms of the past.
