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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| bb6df27 | It was more like I saw him coming and knew he was the one. I went out of myself to meet him and then couldn't get back inside without bringing him with me. | Gail Godwin | ||
| adb5bd9 | These amazing and often indispensable systems work so well and so quietly that we tend to be unaware of their existence. | David Macaulay | ||
| ec7fc0e | 'Tis not a life,'Tis but a piece of childhood thrown away. | Beaumont and Fletcher | ||
| 23aec4f | He had a reasonable job as an actuary (whatever that was), | Ruth Rendell | ||
| 7263179 | He didn't know how to speak properly, how to walk properly, how to comb his hair, and she felt embarrassed for him as he shouted about restoring jobs and national honor, about a better and splendid Germany. The mob applauded, shouted. Did people really believe that he wanted what was best for Germany? | Ursula Hegi | ||
| 7b8f484 | Carefully, the girl skimmed her fingers across her mother's knee. It was smooth; the skin had closed across the tiny wounds like the surface of the river after you toss stones into the waves. Only you knew they were there. Unless you told. | Ursula Hegi | ||
| f656e30 | These are thing," Trudi's father told her long before she was old enough for confession, "that the church call sins, but they are part of being human. And those we need to embrace. The most important thing--" He paused. "--is to be kind." | Ursula Hegi | ||
| 689a591 | Their train speeds through the cities and crosses rivers until it reaches Paris. They leave the station, their arms around each other, and walk to the Jardin des Plantes where the panther paces the length of his cage. The young teacher nods as Hannelore Beier reaches into the cage, and strokes the animal's magnificent neck. The panther arches his back. A curtain lifts from his pupils as the pastor's sister slides aside the bolt that has kep.. | jardin-des-plantes panther rilke | Ursula Hegi | |
| 6c62d21 | Only a few people in Burgdorf had read Mein Kampf, and many thought that all this talk about Rssenreinheit-purity of the race-was ludicrous and impossible to enforce. Yet the long training in obedience to elders, government, and church made it difficult-even for those who considered the views of the Nazis dishonorable-to give voice to their misgivings. And so they kept hushed, yielding to each new indignity while they waited for the Nazis a.. | Ursula Hegi | ||
| fca5fe8 | Stones from the River, Ursula Hegi | Irmgard A. Hunt | ||
| 0fe1b52 | It was the kind of silence that fills you with light and makes you believe you can do anything you want. | Ursula Hegi | ||
| d3d6127 | All your better deedsShall be in water writ, but this in marble. | Beaumont and Fletcher | ||
| 5fe1351 | It shew'd discretion, the best part of valor. | Beaumont and Fletcher | ||
| 9400510 | Data are to statistics what a good offensive is to a star quarterback. | statistics | Charles Wheelan | |
| 104f058 | Jealousy, that diseased crow pecking at your heart. | jealousy-quotes jealousy-quotes-love-quote | Stewart Stafford | |
| 1a94a2f | Ah, sleep, clothe me in thy velvet cloak. | dreaming dreams rest sleep | Stewart Stafford | |
| 4c87b50 | Success is the bridge between insanity and credibility. | Stewart Stafford | ||
| 939152e | All vampires are brothers in the brotherhood of night! | nighttime vampire-series vampires | Stewart Stafford | |
| dd12a2d | The Phantastic Phantasms by Stewart Stafford Halloween Henry sitting on top of a pumpkin he made Eyes are ablaze Morbid Melissa breastfeeding strychnine to all of the babes Her smile never fades Don't you see that darkness creeping? It's a nightmare without sleeping Trick-or-Treat Trevor knocking on doors with no head to display It's his headless way Emmet The Clownface Haunting the grounds of an old children's school He's nobody's ghoul On.. | all-hallows-eve dark-humour halloween halloween-beasts halloween-creatures halloween-poem halloween-poems phantasm samhain | Stewart Stafford | |
| 334381d | Almost Myself On a twilight road, I met a young man with my face. A denizen of some distant dust devil in drifter denim. We stood and eyed each other, then, with a look of mutual disdain, we parted. | doppelgänger drifter hitchhiking poem poems-on-life poetry supernatural-mystery twilight twin-soul | Stewart Stafford | |
| 6f023ba | Lord, if Hezekiah could learn to lean upon and be confident in You, I know that it's also possible for me. Enable me to focus on developing and maximizing my strengths rather than concentrating on my weaknesses. Amen. | Joyce Meyer | ||
| 31d5b55 | Os maiores riscos nunca sao aqueles que voce pode ver e mensurar, mas aqueles que voce nao pode ver e, portanto, jamais podera mensurar. Aqueles que parecem tao distantes, fora das fronteiras da probabilidade normal, que voce nao consegue nem imaginar que possam acontecer na sua vida - mesmo que, e claro, acontecam, com mais frequencia do que voce se da conta. | Charles Wheelan | ||
| 7164935 | THE | Charles Wheelan | ||
| db1ce77 | Several studies of thousands of British civil servants (the Whitehall studies) have found that workers who have little control over their jobs--meaning they have minimal say over what tasks are performed or how those tasks are carried out--have a significantly higher mortality rate than other workers in the civil service with more decision-making authority. | Charles Wheelan | ||
| 5b7be9c | our ability to analyze data has grown far more sophisticated than our thinking about what we ought to do with the results. You | Charles Wheelan | ||
| d1a1fb8 | Recognize that your own motivation, ambition, and talents will determine your success more than the college name on your diploma."8" | Charles Wheelan | ||
| f674642 | Statistical inference is really just the marriage of two concepts that we've already discussed: data and probability (with a little help from the central limit theorem). | Charles Wheelan | ||
| 0ad42a7 | For all of these reasons, a shocking amount of expert research turns out to be wrong. John Ioannidis, a Greek doctor and epidemiologist, examined forty-nine studies published in three prominent medical journals.8 Each study had been cited in the medical literature at least a thousand times. Yet roughly one-third of the research was subsequently refuted by later work. (For example, some of the studies he examined promoted estrogen replacemen.. | Charles Wheelan | ||
| fecee98 | A statistical anomaly does not prove wrongdoing. Delma Kinney, a fifty-year-old Atlanta man, won $1 million in an instant lottery in 2008 and then another $1 million in an instant game in 2011. The probability of that happening to the same person is somewhere in the range of 1 in 25 trillion. | statistics | Charles Wheelan | |
| 6d83974 | The one social factor that researchers agree is consistently linked to longer lives in every country where it has been studied is education. It is more important than race; it obliterates any effects of income."4" | Charles Wheelan | ||
| 24daa07 | But it's not perfect. The GPA does not reflect the difficulty of the courses that different students may have taken. | Charles Wheelan | ||
| 387aa70 | A study in the American Journal of Public Health estimated that every $1 increase in the price of gasoline is associated with an additional 1,500 motorcycle deaths annually.10 | Charles Wheelan | ||
| 9481d86 | Obituaries are just like biographies, only shorter. They remind us that interesting, successful people rarely lead orderly, linear lives. I defy you to find a single obituary that begins, "Jane Doe won the Nobel Prize in large part because she was admitted to a prestigious, highly selective preschool. After that, everything just kind of fell into place." Instead, you will read about dead ends, lucky coincidences, quirky habits, excessive se.. | passion success | Charles Wheelan | |
| cf410cf | VaR has been called "potentially catastrophic," "a fraud," and many other things not fit for a family book about statistics like this one. In particular, the model has been blamed for the onset and severity of the financial crisis. The primary critique of VaR is that the underlying risks associated with financial markets are not as predictable as a coin flip or even a blind taste test between two beers. The false precision embedded in the m.. | Charles Wheelan | ||
| ef9aff4 | Housing prices had never before fallen as far and as fast as they did beginning in 2007. But that's what happened. Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan explained to a congressional committee after the fact, "The whole intellectual edifice, however, collapsed in the summer of [2007] because the data input into the risk management models generally covered only the past two decades, a period of euphoria. Had instead the models been f.. | Charles Wheelan | ||
| 4905e4a | Fire, knives, automobiles, hair removal cream. Each of these things serves an important purpose. Each one makes our lives better. And each one can cause some serious problems when abused. Now you can add statistics to that list. | statistics | Charles Wheelan | |
| 477c102 | The finest studies are like the finest of anything else: They cost big bucks. | Charles Wheelan | ||
| 4ea4ac3 | Researchers may have some conscious or unconscious bias, either because of a strongly held prior belief or because a positive finding would be better for their career. (No one ever gets rich or famous by proving what doesn't cause cancer.) | science statistics | Charles Wheelan | |
| 2071d7c | Skepticism is always a good first response. | statistics | Charles Wheelan | |
| 5acb017 | Longitudinal data sets are the research equivalent of a Ferrari. Not surprisingly, we can't always have the Ferrari. The research equivalent of a Toyota is a cross-sectional data set. | Charles Wheelan | ||
| 5d97d45 | Statistics cannot be any smarter than the people who use them. And in some cases, they can make smart people do dumb things. | Charles Wheelan | ||
| 16cd682 | The first descriptive task is often to find some measure of the "middle" of a set of data, or what statisticians might describe as its "central tendency." What is the typical quality experience for your printers compared with those of the competition?" | Charles Wheelan | ||
| 5e12aad | I have always had an uncomfortable relationship with math. I don't like numbers for the sake of numbers. I am not impressed by fancy formulas that have no real-world application. I particularly disliked high school calculus for the simple reason that no one ever bothered to tell me why I needed to learn it. What is the area beneath a parabola? Who cares? | Charles Wheelan | ||
| 79b7407 | Intelligence Gathering and Crime Analysis, | Charles Wheelan |