"The reason for your poor projections is often right in front of you. Whether you are using statistical analysis or just an average, sometimes the way you are calculating your numbers doesn't make any sense. Sometimes it's best to get up, take a walk, and revisit your calculations later. I have returned to my work many times and said: "Why the hell would I calculate it like that?""

-- Des MacHale

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“The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America.”
“An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.”
“I'm so happy, I think I'll dress up like J. Edgar Hoover and sing show tunes.”
“I fear the carnival of crime is beginning on our border.”
“When an actor asks you to read his script, your heart sinks. The number of scripts I've been given by actors that are so unbelievably terrible!”

Source : "Memories of mischief". Interview with Sally Vincent, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2005.
“Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.”
“It is obvious that the greatest and most important service that is required of our agriculture under existing conditions is an enlarged production of the staple food crops.”
“Only people who are assured of daily food can concern themselves with matters of principle and ethic. A man will become a slave rather than starve.”

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