"If ... we choose a group of social phenomena with no antecedent knowledge of the causation or absence of causation among them, then the calculation of correlation coefficients, total or partial, will not advance us a step toward evaluating the importance of the causes at work."

-- Ronald Fisher

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“I mean, there's chemistry in life and there's acting chemistry. I'm not saying they're the same thing, but they're as mysterious.”
“I'd rather have a bullet inside of me than to be living in constant dread of one.”
“Haste in every business brings failures.”

Source : "The Histories" by Herodotus, Book 7, Ch. 10, c. 440 BC.
“I'm a person who likes habit and knowing what my job is.”

Source : "Adams on Reel Women: In our Jane Lynch Interview the "Wreck-It Ralph" heroine gets animated". Interview with Thelma Adams, www.yahoo.com. February 11, 2013.
“The fairest blossoms of pleasantry thrive best where the sun is not strong enough to scorch, nor the soil rank enough to corrupt.”
“I was born deaf, and I gained my hearing back when I was six months old - it was a miraculous event.”
“I work with wood a lot. I like building. I think of building. I would love to buy land on some water somewhere and build a house. That'd be nice.”

Source : Source: www.identitytheory.com
“Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.”

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