"What I tend to do is blend quantitative with the qualitative to allow me to plot the qualitative data in some way. It's a question of what quantitative data are most applicable. So I'm playing with that, merging the two."

-- David Mccandless

“The food that memory gives to eat is bitter to the taste, and it is only with the teeth of hope that we can bear to bite it.”

Source : H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.1119, Delphi Classics
“I have a high tolerance for discomfort.”
“I started realizing that music is the one area where I've always let go. When that saxophone goes into my mouth, I get into a space where I never think about the notes I've already played or anticipate the notes ahead.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Homosexuality is a mental disorder that can be cured through counselling.”
“Everybody is unique. Compare not yourself with anybody else lest you spoil God's curriculum.”
“There is no bigger judgment for a president of the United States than how you take a nation to war.”
“Cut out the eye from a photograph of one who has been loved but is seen no more. Attach the eye to the pendulum of a metronome and regulate the weight to suit the tempo desired. Keep going to the limit of endurance. With a hammer well-aimed, try to destroy the whole at a single blow.”
“When I travel on an airplane, I like to be served TWA milk and TWA coffee. But I love to be served TWA tea.”

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