"The best causes tend to attract to their support the worst arguments, which seems to be equally true in the intellectual and in the moral sense."

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Source : "Statistical Methods and Scientific Inference". Book by Ronald Fisher, 1956.

Ronald Fisher

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“I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live. Unfortunately, its not the way the music business works. If you don't create some kind of public image, it gets created for you.”
“In law also the emphasis makes the song.”
“I don't know what takes more courage: surviving a lifelong endurance test because you once made a promise or breaking free, disrupting all your world.”
“Writing was my first occupation, begun at age 23.”

Source : Simon and schuster Interview, www.goodreads.com. October, 2009.
“In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through that tyranny, that people should be eccentric. Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.”
“There is a great good in returning to a landscape that has had extraordinary meaning in one's life. It happens that we return to such places in our minds irresistibly. There are certain villages and towns, mountains and plains that, having seen them walked in them lived in them even for a day, we keep forever in the mind's eye. They become indispensable to our well-being; they define us, and we say, I am who I am because I have been there, or there.”
“Let's get to a world where we don't litigate the aftermath, because it doesn't happen in the first place.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com
“I make big shots everywhere. I get accustomed to it. I'm not afraid to be the goat. I don't worry about what you (reporters) say about me in the papers. In fact, I like it. It tickles me.”

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