"Probability theory is nothing but common sense reduced to calculation."

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Source : "Théorie Analytique Des Probabilités". Book by Pierre-Simon Laplace, second edition, 1814.

Pierre-Simon Laplace

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“You said, 'I love you.' Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long to hear? 'I love you' is always a quotation. You did not say it first and neither did I, yet when you say it and when I say it we speak like savages who have found three words and worship them. I did worship them but now I am alone on a rock hewn out of my own body.”
“Everything I do is going to be gangsta rap, street based, street oriented... I'm from Gary, Indiana, and everybody's damn near at the poverty level.”

Source : Source: www.rollingstone.com
“There is a kind of a cascading chain, ... If one can't sell, then that business doesn't buy and that means the next business doesn't sell, and the previous business doesn't sell, and so on.”
“I'm very professional.”
“Accept these grateful tears...For thee they flow, for thee... That ever felt another's woe.”
“My religion is nature. Thatâ€™s what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me.”
“I think records and music are more appropriate and more respectful of the human soul than the churches are. And more respectful of the needs of humans to communicate with the aspects of themselves that are neglected by language.”

Source : Will Oldham (2012). “Will Oldham on Bonnie "Prince" Billy”, p.50, W. W. Norton & Company
“So we want to change the tax system. We want it to be fair, and we want to see some tax relief because people do three things when they get a little extra money in their pocket: They save it or they spend it or they invest it.”

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