Quotes
Authors
Ronald Fisher

"Modern statisticians are familiar with the notion that any finite body of data contains only a limited amount of information on any point under examination; that this limit is set by the nature of the data themselves, and cannot be increased by any amount of ingenuity expended in their statistical examination: that the statistician's task, in fact, is limited to the extraction of the whole of the available information on any particular issue."

-- Ronald Fisher

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“When we remember presidents who didn't fulfill their promises - for instance George H.W. Bush saying no new taxes or Barack Obama saying he would close the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay - we remember those because they're the exceptions, not the rule.”

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“The flow from knowledge to action draws upon the complete person with his or her catalyst and synergistic potential.”
“Fiction just makes it all more interesting. Truth is so boring.”

Source : "Dead As A Doornail: A True Blood Novel". Book by Charlaine Harris, July 30, 2009.
“Yesterday I wanted to turn inside out.”
“Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy . . . Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals, seeks nothing but rational values, and finds his joy in nothing but rational actions.”
“After exponential quantities the circular functions, sine and cosine, should be considered because they arise when imaginary quantities are involved in the exponential.”
“Successful socialism depends on the perfectibility of man. Unless all, or nearly all, men are high-minded and clear-sighted, it isbound to be a rotten failure in any but a physical sense. Even through it is altruism, socialism means materialism. You can guarantee the things of the body to every one, but you cannot guarantee the things of the spirit to every one; you can guarantee only that the opportunity to seek them shall not be denied to any one who chooses to seek them.”
“With all the things that you could be, you never could learn how to be me.”

Source : Song: How, Album: Firecracker, 1997

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