"Progress. There's a good deal too much o' this progress about nowadays, an', what's more, it'll have to stop."

-- Winifred Holtby

#Progress Quotes #Too Much Quotes #Deals Quotes

“The more cashless our society becomes, the more our moral compass slips.”
“The grid is going to be a very different system in 2020, 2030. We keep thinking that we want it to be there and provide power when we need it...Families will have to get used to only using power when it was available, rather than constantly.”
“Great people have great egos; maybe that's what makes them great.”
“Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.”
“Erik: Are you very tired? Christine: Oh, tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead. Erik: Your soul is a beautiful thing, child. No emperor received so fair a gift. The angels wept to-night.”
“As to the strong likeness between General Hamilton and Dr. Stevens, Mr. Yard could give no account; altho' it seemed apparent that he thought them near of kin. In cases of this sort, the possibility of kindred blood gives rise to surmises, or strong suspicions, of which no proof is attainable.”
“...all models are approximations. Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful. However, the approximate nature of the model must always be borne in mind...”

Source : George E. P. Box, Norman R. Draper (2007). “Response Surfaces, Mixtures, and Ridge Analyses”, p.414, John Wiley & Sons
“the old fellow seemed to spot deceit as if it reeked like a goat.”

Source : Margery Allingham (2015). “The Tiger in the Smoke”, p.85, Ipso Books

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