"The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound reasoning respecting true data."

-- Charles Babbage

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“The rise of childhood obesity has placed the health of an entire generation at risk.”

Source : "Securing Our Future Through Our Children’s Health" by Sec. Tom Vilsack, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2010.
“The line separating investment and speculation, which is never bright and clear, becomes blurred still further when most market participants have recently enjoyed triumphs. Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money. After a heady experience of that kind, normally sensible people drift into behavior akin to that of Cinderella at the ball.”
“There's dozens of unrelated policy provisions tucked inside of it. I'll give you a sense of a handful of them. One is a visa waiver program change. It's going to make it harder for people who've traveled to places with terrorist activity to get into the U.S. They're going to have to go through an added layer of security.”

Source : "Here's What You Should Know About The $1.8 Trillion Spending Bill". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. December 21, 2015.
“Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).”
“Being on the road 33 weeks of the year, this becomes your community. You have to get to along with everybody. Racing becomes your life. You still have your friends at home, but you're with these people so much. You have to get along.”
“You will like her," he persisted. "Egad, she's after your own heart, maman! She shot me in the arm." "Voyons, do you think that is what I like?”
“The instability in the region is not a result of Israel and the Palestinians. That was never the cause of this instability. Instead, the disfunctionality of many of these societies that have failed to modernize.”
“America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.”

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