"Please go on, make your threats. I don't like to submit to mere implication."

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“For like to like, the proverb saith.”

Source : Henry Howard earl of Surrey, Thomas Wyatt (1816). “The Works”, p.27
“Men kill for many reasons, they steal but for one-greed.”
“She who knows life flows, feels no wear or tear, needs no mending or repair.”
“If someone does a study which, for statistical reasons, I think is hopelessly underpowered or nonidentified, my best and most useful advice will not be tips on how to calculate p-values better, or how to construct an explanation for some particular data pattern. Rather, my advice will be to start over, to reconsider what you think you already know, maybe to question some prominent work in your subfield, and quite possibly to think a lot harder about measurement, and about the relation of your data to your underlying constructs of interest.”

Source : "We talked to the scientist at the center of a brutal firestorm in the field of psychology" by Rafi Letzter, www.businessinsider.com. September 26, 2016.
“If we took 75% of the worldâ€™s trashed rangeland, we could restore it from agriculture back to functioning prairies â€” with their animal cohorts â€” in under fifteen years. We could further sequester all of the carbon that has been released since the beginning of the industrial age. So I find that a hopeful thing because, frankly, we just have to get out of the way. Nature will do the work for us. This planet wants to be grassland and forest. It does not want to be an agricultural mono-crop.”
“Being in touch with our bodies, or more accurately, being our bodies, is how we know what is true. Harriet”
“We tend to gravitate towards our tribes; the challenge is to understand the people of other tribes.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only.”

Source : Joseph Barber Lightfoot (Bishop of Durham) (1890). “Ordination addresses and counsels to clergy”

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