"If we gather more and more data and establish more and more associations, however, we will not finally find that we know something. We will simply end up having more and more data and larger sets of correlations."

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Source : Kenneth N. Waltz (2010). “Theory of International Politics”, p.4, Waveland Press

Kenneth Waltz

#Data Quotes #Association Quotes #Ends Quotes

“I donâ€™t believe in objectivity, but I do believe deeply in fairness.”
“Too often we jump to the conclusion that something is impossible simply because we cannot see the solution. No one knows enough to be a pessimist.”
“That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending - performing. You get to love your pretence. It's true, we're locked in an image, an act - and the sad thing is, people get so used to their image, they grow attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they really are. And if you try to remind them, they hate you for it, they feel like you're trying to steal their most precious possession.”

Source : "Jim Morrison: Ten Years Gone". "Creem Magazine" Interview with Lizzie James, 1981.
“Don't make art for other artists or for 'intellectuals', make art for people - and if you can touch just one person in a lifetime and make a difference - you have succeeded.”
“The way music reflects real life, the way that painstakingly, over the years, what I have said is really a metaphor for what's happening to America. It used to be about, or tried to be at the very beginning, about what was right. It has stopped being what was right for America; it started being about what was right for companies that are in control.”
“I got in the habit of giving away a book as soon as I've finished it because I lived in a housing co-op at Cambridge and had no space to keep books.”
“Because that's just the way it is, and don't sleep on what you did before, you know, because it can... not hurt you, but you can find yourself sleeping on something that happened in the past, but you dare to progress and there is always room for progression.”
“Praise with elation Praise every morning Spring's re-creation Of the First Day!”

Source : Eleanor Farjeon (2013). “The New Book of Days”, p.91, Random House

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