"Proper treatment will cure a cold in seven days, but left to itself, a cold will hang on for a week."

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Source : Darrell Huff (2010). “How to Lie with Statistics”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company

Darrell Huff

#Cold Quotes #Week Quotes #Seven Quotes

“To change the world, we must first change the way the babies are being born,”
“Skills that are monopolizable are anathema to capital .”

Source : "The Limits To Capital". Book by David Harvey, 1982.
“The way Bernard Shaw believes in himself is very refreshing in these atheistic days when so many people believe in no God at all.”
“And often the worst thing wasn't the victims--they were dead, after all, and beyond any more pain. The worst thing was those who loved them and survived them. Often the walking dead from now on, shell-shocked, hearts ruptured, stumbling through the remainder of their lives without anything left inside of them but blood and organs, impervious to pain, having learned nothing except that the worst things did, in fact, sometimes happen. (Mystic River)”
“Opportunity lies between your own two ears”
“[The Internet] is a series of tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.”
“Some people wake up drowsy. Some people wake up energized. I wake up dead.”
“I want to be liked... No, I want to be more than just liked... I want people to say, "that Charlie Brown is a great guy!" And when people are at parties, I want them to look for me, and when I finally arrive, I want them to say, "here comes good ol' Charlie Brown... Now everything will be all right!" I want to be a special person... I want to be needed... It's kind of hard to explain... Do you understand? I mean, do you know what I'm talking about?" "Sure, I understand perfectly..." "Well?" "Forget it! Five cents, please!”

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