"That is probable which for the most part usually comes to pass, or which is a part of the ordinary beliefs of mankind."

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

#Ordinary Quotes #Statistics Quotes #Belief Quotes

“The combination of popcorn, soda, and melted chocolate which covers the floors of movie theaters.”
“To me [Christianity] was all nonsense based on that profane compilation of fables called the Bible.”

Source : Big Bill Haywood (1929). “Bill Haywood's book”
“It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.”
“The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.”
“Amount of search is not a measure of the amount of intelligence being exhibited. What makes a problem a problem is not that a large amount of search is required for its solution, but that a large amount would be required if a requisite level of intelligence were not applied.”
“Few actions of consequence in the world have been accomplished without passion.”
“There is a quiet humor in Yiddish and a gratitude for every day of life, every crumb of success, each encounter of love... In a figurative way, Yiddish is the wise and humble language of us all, the idiom of a frightened and hopeful humanity.”
“I’d be glad to go out on a limb with those Who want nothing beyond what the wind bestows, Were I not bound to roots, dug in deep to bear Never being done grasping for light and air”

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