"I think statistics go in one ear and out the other. All of us respond to stories more than numbers."

-- Koren Zailckas

#Thinking Quotes #Numbers Quotes #Stories Quotes

“In spite of every sage whom Greece can show, Unerring wisdom never dwelt below; Folly in all of every age we see, The only difference lies in the degree.”

Source : "Satires (Satire 4)". Book by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, 1716.
“In order for good to blossom it must be cultivated and exercised by constant practice, and to be truly righteous there is required a daily pruning of the evil growth of our characters by a daily repen- tance from sin.”
“I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.”
“However, in my fiction, I want to give an even further warning of where we're heading. And so, in "Heartland," you have people selling off their topsoil, and an underwater oil spill that has lasted over three-hundred days.”

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“What we have to fight for...is the freedom and independence of the fatherland, so that our people may be enabled to fulfill the mission assigned to it by the Creator.”
“In four short years he has turned our country from a prosperous nation at peace into a desperately indebted nation at war. But so what? He is the President of the United States, and you're not. Love it or leave it.”
“The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.”
“The nearest each of us can come to God is by loving the truth.”

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