"After the collection of facts, the search for causes."

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Hippolyte Taine

#History Quotes #Causes Quotes #Facts Quotes

“Innocence is a kind of insanity”
“The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action.”
“Imagination is a good horse to carry you over the ground - not a flying carpet to set you free from probability.”
“I choose to give my life for those who have been left out of the sunlight of opportunity”
“I never asked anybody to take me seriously.”
“Nowadays, it's good to eat the booty like groceries, but back then, going down on a woman was sort of "Ew."”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Barack Obama is an intellectual.”
“I think the celebrity author trend reflects, at least in part, the growing influence of marketing departments at publishing companies. The emphasis becomes on the easy sell, as opposed to finding the best quality and writing and illustrating. There are exceptions (I like John Lithgow's stuff, for example), but a lot of it is putrid, and the best of it is often ghostwritten. Save the ink. Save the trees. Save our brain cells.”

Source : "Book World Live: Kid's Books". Online dicuss, www.washingtonpost.com. December 13, 2005.

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