"If we have data, let's look at data. If all we have are opinions, let's go with mine."

-- James L. Barksdale

#Data Quotes #Looks Quotes #Opinion Quotes

“A child who is happy on his pony's back has something which will be to him a glorious memory that the years cannot dim ...”
“The word abbreviation sure is long for what it means.”
“Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.”
“But I tell you one thing, I don't want to be immortal if it mean living forever, cause then everybody else just die and get old in front of you while you stay the same, and that's just sad.”

Source : Rebecca Skloot (2010). “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”, p.310, Broadway Books
“"Mad Men" - it seems like they try to capture this glamorized version of the '50s and '60s advertising culture.”

Source : "Will Don Draper Become D.B. Cooper? A Skyjacking Expert Weighs In". Interview with Julia Turner, www.slate.com. April 16, 2014.
“I do not inveigh against higher education, I simply maintain that the sort of education the colored people of the South stand most in need of, is elementary and industrial. They should be instructed for the work to be done.”

Source : Timothy Thomas Fortune, Seth Moglen (2007). “Black and White: Land, Labor, and Politics in the South”, Simon and Schuster
“The porcupine, which one must handle gloved, may be respected, but is never loved.”
“If a mosquito has a soul, it is mostly evil. So I don't have too many qualms about putting a mosquito out of its misery. I'm a little more respectful of ants.”

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