"Data is like garbage. You'd better know what you are going to do with it before you collect it."

-- Mark Twain

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“A good album can make your day. A great album can change your life.”
“I don't know what's meant by Know thyself, which seems to ask a window to look at a window.”

Source : "Vectors: Aphorisms & Ten-second Essays". Book by James Richardson, 2001.
“Give me a stout heart to bear my own burdens. Give me a willing heart to bear the burdens of others. Give me a believing heart to cast all burdens upon Thee, O Lord.”

Source : John Baillie (1952). “A diary of private prayer”, Scribner
“I'm most proud of the longevity of my marriage, my kids, and my grandchildren. If you don't have that, you really don't have very much.”
“My only preference is to have a lot of variety and diversity in the material that I work on.”

Source : Source: movieweb.com
“Native speakers of a language know intuitively whether a sentence is grammatical or not. They usually cannot specify exactly what is wrong, and very possibly they make the same mistakes in their own speech, but they know-unconsciously, not as a set of rules they learned in school-when a sentence is incorrect.”

Source : Peter Farb (2015). “Word Play: What Happens When People Talk”, p.258, Vintage
“She would have liked to sit upon a rock and listen to words, not of any man, but detached, mysterious, poetic words that she alone would interpret through some sense inherited from sleep.”

Source : Patrick White (2011). “Voss”, p.63, Random House
“There are many who subscribe to the convention that service is a business cost, but our data demonstrates that superior service is an investment that can help drive business growth. Investing in quality talent, and ensuring they have the skills, training and tools that enable them to empathize and actively listen to customers are central to providing consistently excellent service experiences.”

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