"I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No."

-- Paddy Ashdown

#Expectations Quotes #Justice Quotes #Done Quotes

“I was lucky because logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.”
“I don't live in a fancy neighborhood.”
“A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.”

Source : Clifton Fadiman (1955). “Party of One: The Selectd Writings of Clifton Fadiman”
“In the 1980s, there were occasions when it made sense to say, 'it is too difficult to maximize the likelihood function, and besides if we do, it will blow our model out of the water.”
“When you make something, if you are a painter or a writer, a degree, or a sculptor or whatever or a musician, a degree of energy is required to make it, and I'm not sure that it is always aggressive, but when you have a great deal of energy it can appear to be more aggressive than it is. In fact, I mean you can talk about a waterfall being aggressive, but in fact it is just a very powerful forward movement of energy, and although I think sometimes my engine house is a kind of anger.”
“Without a doubt my mother was an inspiration for my writing. This is true in many ways, but mostly because she is a wonderful storyteller, without even knowing it.”
“If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.”
“We must learn, and we are gradually learning, how to write history with the help of archaeology.”

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