"Let grammar, punctuation, and spelling into your life! Even the most energetic and wonderful mess has to be turned into sentences."

-- Terry Pratchett

#Writing Quotes #Punctuation Quotes #Wonderful Quotes

“How will you use the years God gives you? Will you be remembered for being a fault-finder? Or will you be known for your quick smile, the laugh lines around your eyes, and the twinkle deep within? After all, God gives you your face, but you provide the expression!”
“If you accept others as equals, you embrace them unconditionally, now and forever. But if you let them know that you tolerate them, you suggest in the same breath that they are actually an inconvenience, like a nagging pain or an unpleasant odour you are willing to disregard.”
“You alone became the outer surface of my life, the side I never see, and you will be that, the unknown part of me, until I die.”
“My gayness became quietly accepted and, shock of all shocks, life went on.”
“There is but one freedom, To put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. I cannot force you to believe in God. Believing in God amounts to coming to terms with death. When you have accepted death, the problem of God will be solved, and not the reverse.”
“From the seed grows a root, then a sprout; from the sprout, the seedling leaves; from the leaves, the stem; around the stem, the branches; at the top, the flower. . . We cannot say that the seed causes the growth, nor that the soil does. We can say that the potentialities for growth lie within the seed, in mysterious life forces, which, when properly fostered, take on certain forms.”
“Those who ignore Statistics are condemned to reinvent it.”

Source : "'The Role of Statistics in the Data Revolution?'. International Statistical Review 69: 5-10" by Jerome H. Friedman, April 2001.
“Suppressed pain chokes us; in our breasts It surges, adding ever to its strength.”

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