"Statistics may be defined as "a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty."

-- W. Allen Wallis

#Wise Quotes #Decision Quotes #Body Quotes

“Thank God for sleep! And when you cannot sleep, still thank Him that you live to lie awake.”
“If you knew the satisfaction of performing a duty, as well as the gratitude to God which the missionary must always feel in being chosen for so noble and sacred a calling, you would feel no hesitation in embracing it.”
“We're just learning that a lot of planets are small planets, and we didn't know that before, fact is, in planetary science, objects such as Pluto and the other dwarf planets in the Kuiper Belt are considered planets and called planets in everyday discourse in scientific meetings.”
“Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?”

Source : Clarice Lispector (1986). “The Hour of the Star”, p.15, New Directions Publishing
“We adults, our policies, our ways of governance, are responsible for poverty, not the children.”
“Marriage is a living sign that truly communicates the love of Christ and the Church.”
“I think women bring a different perspective into Senate and that we tend to be more collaborative in our approach.”
“If 'heartache' sounds exaggerated then surely you have never gone to your garden one rare morning in June to find that the frost, without any perceptible motive, any hope of personal gain, has quietly killed your strawberry blossoms, tomatoes, lima and green beans, corn, squash, cucumbers. A brilliant sun is now smiling at this disaster with an insenstive cheerfulness as out of place as a funny story would be if someone you loved had just died.”

Source : Ruth Stout (1987). “How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back: A New Method of Mulch Gardening”, Fireside

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