"Iâ€™m just some white guy in California, and nobody in Flint is going to pay any attention to what Iâ€™m saying. I donâ€™t blame them. Nor do doctors want to publicly agree with me, because nobody wants to downplay the effects of lead poisoning. I get that too. I can already imagine the number of tweets and emails Iâ€™m going to get demanding to know why I think Flint is no big deal."

-- Kevin Drum

#Thinking Quotes #Doctors Quotes #California Quotes

“I think maybe to survive, I mean to just get through the day - I'm not saying that everything is hilariously funny.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Statistical science is indispensable to modern statesmanship. In legislation as in physical science it is beginning to be understood that we can control terrestrial forces only by obeying their laws. The legislator must formulate in his statutes not only the national will, but also those great laws of social life revealed by statistics.”
“I grew up in the Ukraine 'til I was about 7, and then I moved to L.A.”
“The thing with me is I'd rather have my cult following than just have a huge song. I haven't had one album or one official single release, but I probably got 500 songs out in people's collection.”
“One of the most insidious and nefarious properties of scientific models is their tendency to take over, and sometimes supplant, reality.”

Source : Erwin Chargaff (1978). “Heraclitean Fire: Sketches from a Life Before Nature”, p.172, Paul & Company Pub Consortium
“I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to act and my ability to support myself together. I'd run through the possibilities in Washington, so that meant moving to New York.”
“So they grew, and they grew, to the church steeple tops And they couldn't grow up any higher; So they twin'd themselves into a true lover's knot, For all lovers true to admire.”
“I believe with religious intensity that good design is for everyone.”

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