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“We need to sacrifice something. And this is what I find lacking. We want to construct an image of ourselves as virtuous but we don't want to suffer for our beliefs. We want to change the world with a Facebook like. That's not how the world works.”
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“Justice for some people is an evil for others. Good intentions, kindness, and hope will not necessarily make people happy.”
Source : The Asahi Shimbun Interview (translated), August 30, 2011.
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“... there is a skeleton (or death) that flees terrified in the face of my will to live.”
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“I'm very proud to say I only took one course in economics in college, and it was on Saturday morning - Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 8 o'clock. Now I don't know what your college experience was like, but I'll tell ya, on Saturday morning at 8 o'clock, the last thing I wanted to do was go to economics class.”
Source : Source: www.wherestherage.com
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“Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.”
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“A problem of statistical inference or, more simply, a statistics problem is a problem in which data that have been generated in accordance with some unknown probability distribution must be analyzed and some type of inference about the unknown distribution must be made.”
Source : Morris H. DeGroot, Mark J. Schervish (2002). “Probability and Statistics”, Addison Wesley
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“The cold, cruel reality is that with one current justice now approaching ninety, and four others over seventy, the day will inevitably arrive when a sitting justice lies in an intensive care unit, both unable to resign and unable to resume his or her duties.”
Source : "Anticipating the Incapacitated Justice". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 22, 2009. 
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“In its happiest efforts, translation is but approximation, and its efforts are not often happy. A translation may be good as translation, but it cannot be an adequate reproduction of the original.”
