"When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by 'The Onion' - or be the subject of a cartoon in 'The New Yorker.' I guess I'm kind of an outlier there."

-- Nate Silver

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“Maybe that is the power of poetry. It somehow transcends news cycles, and becomes a part of our collective imagination. That is the beauty of the art form I like to play with.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“The water is this marvellous blue. Itâ€™s so blue that once you see it you realise youâ€™ve never seen blue before. That other thing you were calling blue is some other colour, itâ€™s not blue. This, this is blue. Itâ€™s a blue that comes down from the sky into the water so that when you look in the sea you think sky and when you look at the sky you think sea.”
“Individuals don't win in business, teams do.”
“It was like discovering that your innermost fires and terrors, the things you believed no one else could fathom, were in fact the basis of a recognized philosophy. Some part of you felt intimately invaded, threatened; some other part fell to its knees and sobbed in gratitude that it was no longer alone.”

Source : Poppy Z. Brite (1997). “Exquisite Corpse”, p.155, Simon and Schuster
“What are the best things and the worst things in your life, and when are you going to get around to whispering or shouting them?”
“I'm sick of all you ammo-phobes being intolerant of my gun.”
“I need a new friend. I need a friend, period. Not a true friend, nothing close or share clothes or sleepover giggle giggle yak yak. Just a pseudo-friend, disposable friend. Friend as accessory. Just so I don't feel or look so stupid.”

Source : Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.22, Macmillan
“For more than two centuries since winning our own freedom, we the people of the United States have repeatedly answered the call to lead the quest for freedom around the globe.”

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