"I think when dictionaries define words, there's a sort of hair-splitting that to most people doesn't make any sense, which is we're not describing what a thing is."

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Source : Source: www.macleans.ca

Kory Stamper

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Dictionary Quotes

“I direct my attention to the individual, to make him strong, to teach him that he himself is divine, and I call upon men to make themselves conscious of this divinity within. That is really the ideal --conscious or unconscious --of every religion.”
“A problem of statistical inference or, more simply, a statistics problem is a problem in which data that have been generated in accordance with some unknown probability distribution must be analyzed and some type of inference about the unknown distribution must be made.”

Source : Morris H. DeGroot, Mark J. Schervish (2002). “Probability and Statistics”, Addison Wesley
“I live where I would like to live. I live in Majorca, Spain, and I am not sure there are better places.”
“There's different kinds of love, darling. Some people you love no matter what, and others you love when the situation is right. To me, the best kind of love is no matter what kind.”
“The Quartets have been a major part of my work.”
“We completely ignore social media. Bradley Simpson also isn't on social media very much. I think we just try to live in reality as much as we can.”

Source : Source: www.seventeen.com
“It is said that a neo-conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality.”
“I go to work as others rush to see their mistresses, and when I leave, I take back with me to my solitude, or in the midst of the distractions that I pursue, a charming memory that does not in the least resemble the troubled pleasure of lovers.”

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