"We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty."

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Source : Nate Silver (2012). “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't”, p.20, Penguin

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“Taken with the archaeological data, we can say that the old hypothesis of an invasion of people - not merely their language - from the steppe appears to be true.”

Source : Spencer Wells (2012). “The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey”, p.167, Random House
“There's an old line that goes, the truck you see 400 yards down the road is not the truck that hits you. When we see these problems coming, they usually get defused. Brexit may have been a surprise, but we recognized it as something that could possibly happen.”

Source : Source: uk.businessinsider.com
“When I make a film I'm always in reality among the trees, and among the people like yourselves. There's no symbolic or conventional filter between me and reality as there is in literature. The cinema is an explosion of my love for reality.”
“You cannot demand military service of Christians any more than you can of priests. We do not go forth as soldiers with the Emperor even if he demands this.”
“When I'm drafting right to life language, I don't call up the nuns.”

Source : "Rep. Stupak Dismisses Letter from Nuns" by Jake Gibson, www.foxnews.com. March 17, 2010.
“I don't give a score prediction, but I am a defensive guy, so I'll definitely be looking forward to a defensive game.”

Source : "ESQ&A: J.J. Watt (And His New Haircut)". Interview with Nic Screws, www.esquire.com. February 1, 2013.
“Some bruises you wear like badges of honour: when you got it playing rugby, or quad racing, or falling off something while drunk, no opportunity is lost to show off a good contusion. A bruise inflicted by someone else, however, is a whole other story: it's like a big flashing arrow marking you out as punchable, and before long there'll be boys queuing up to add bruises of their own, as if they'd just been waiting for somebody to show them it could be done.”
“Simplest of blossoms! To mine eye Thou bring'st the summer's painted sky; The May-thorn greening in the nook; The minnows sporting in the brook; The bleat of flocks; the breath of flowers; The song of birds amid the bowers; The crystal of the azure seas; The music of the southern breeze; And, over all, the blessed sun, Telling of halcyon days begun.”

Source : David Macbeth Moir (1852). “The Poetical Works of David Macbeth Moir”, p.149

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