Quotes
Authors
Frances Mayes

"Everything I pick up seems to lure me away. Everything I do in my daily life begins to feel like striking wet matches. The need to travel is a mysterious force. A desire to 'go' runs through me equally with an intense desire to 'stay' at home. An equal and opposite thermodynamic principle. When I travel, I think of home and what it means. At home I'm dreaming of catching trains at night in the gray light of Old Europe, or pushing open shutters to see Florence awaken. The balance just slightly tips in the direction of the airport."

-- Frances Mayes

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“The purely random sample is the only kind that can be examined with confidence by means of statistical theory, but there is one things wrong with it. It is so difficult and expensive to obtain for many uses that sheer cost eliminates it. A more economical substitute, which is almost universally used in such fields as opinion polling and market research, is called stratified random sampling.”

Source : Darrell Huff (2010). “How to Lie with Statistics”, p.23, W. W. Norton & Company
“Maybe you think youâ€™ll be entitled to more happiness later by forgoing all of it now, but it doesnâ€™t work that way. Happiness takes as much practice as unhappiness does. Itâ€™s by living that you live more. By waiting you wait more. Every waiting day makes your life a little less. Every lonely day makes you a little smaller. Every day you put off your life makes you less capable of living it.”
“I actually profoundly think the world's a better place when economics is fairly boring... The more boring the better.”
“In order to grow emotionally and mentally, sometimes you have to grow physically as well. I'm just trying to grow, man, and always I just want to be the best and most confident me I can be.”
“I think that life is very dark at times and there are things that are very funny about that.”
“Few things are more pleasant than a village graced with a good church, a good priest and a good pub.”
“The best designs are those that dissolve into behavior.”
“Many people believe that dealing with overweight and obesity is a personal responsibility. To some degree they are right, but it is also a community responsibility. When there are no safe, accessible places for children to play or adults to walk, jog, or ride a bike, that is a community responsibility.”

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