"Statistics are designed to keep you safe."

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Source : 1997 Skating to Antarctica.

Jenny Diski

#Safe Quotes #Statistics Quotes

“Every night before putting her to sleep, Yankel counts her ribs, as if one might have disappeared in the course of the day and become the seed and soil for some new companion to steal her away from him.”
“I love and revere the rich and proud history of America. And I am determined to take our best traditions into the future. But with all respect, we do not need to build a bridge to the past. We need to build a bridge to the future.”
“I need no bodyguard at all, for even the bravest men who approach me get weak at the knees and their hearts turn to water, whilst their heads become giddy and incapable of thinking as the sweat of fear paralyses them”

Source : "Shaka Zulu : The Rise of the Zulu Empire". Book by E. A. Ritter, p. 319, 1955.
“Itâ€™s up to the captain. I certainly feel my golf is worthy of playing in the Ryder Cup. But Iâ€™m not sure Iâ€™m on the radar screen of Paul McGinley.”
“My relationship with God is as strong as the time and energy I put into connecting with God.”
“Even a tiny step is one step closer to where you are going.”
“There is great danger, yea, many times most danger, in the smallest sins... Greater sins do sooner startle the soul, and awaken and rouse up the soul to repentance, than lesser sins do. Little sins often slide into the soul, and breed, and work secretly and undiscernibly in the soul, till they come to be so strong, as to trample upon the soul and to cut the throat of the soul.”
“...What will the present chaos lead to? How will it all end? It can only end in one way. Mankind will be sick of it all....”

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