"I can't even get a credit card without three credit bureaus saying I'm good enough."

-- Barack Obama

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“The manipulation of statistical formulas is no substitute for knowing what one is doing.”

Source : Hubert M. Blalock (1972). “Social statistics”, McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
“Supreme egotism and utter seriousness are necessary for the greatest accomplishment, and these the Irish find hard to sustain; at some point, the instinct to see life in a comic light becomes irresistible, and ambition falls before it”

Source : William V. Shannon (1989). “The American Irish: A Political and Social Portrait”, p.24, Univ of Massachusetts Press
“But the point is, now, at this moment, or any moment, we're only cross-sections of our real selves. What we really are is the whole stretch of ourselves, all our time, and when we come to the end of this life, all those selves, all our time, will be us - the real you, the real me. And then perhaps we'll find ourselves in another time, which is only another kind of dream.”
“I don't want to sound pretentious, but you could hire a bunch of monkeys to be on a TV show, and if it's successful, then everything's perfect and everybody's happy.”
“The violence is the violence. I understand that we're sometimes squeamish about it, but I think that strength needs to be called on once in awhile, and sometimes that's the only thing that will work.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose.”
“One can't help thinking, Daddy, what a colourless life a man is forced to lead, when one reflects that chiffon and Venetian point and hand embroidery and Irish crochet are to him mere empty words. Whereas a woman- whether she is interested in babies or microbes or husbands or poetry or servants or parallelograms or gardens or Plato or bridge- is fundamentally and always interested in clothes.”

Source : Jean Webster (2002). “Daddy-Long-Legs”, p.97, Courier Corporation
“I think game theory creates ideas that are important in solving and approaching conflict in general.”

Source : "Game theorists share Nobel prize". news.bbc.co.uk. October 10, 2005.

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