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Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric. ~Pam Brown



Statistics may be defined as "a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty." ~W.A. Wallis



It is difficult not to wonder whether that combination of elements which produces a machine for labor does not create also a soul of sorts, a dull resentful metallic will, which can rebel at times. ~Pearl S. Buck



Dictum: a statement or saying, especially a formal statement of fact, opinion, principle, etc., or of one's will or judgment; a pronouncement; a noteworthy statement, as a formal pronouncement of a principle, proposition, or opinion, or an observation intended or regarded as authoritative.



The world is not divided into sheeps and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white. It is a fundamental of taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeon-holes. The living world is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects. The sooner we learn this concerning sexual behavior the sooner we shall reach a sound understanding of the realities of sex. ~Alfred Kinsey, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, 1948



The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence. ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar



I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it. ~Henry James



Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them. ~Henry David Thoreau



Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once a week. ~George Bernard Shaw



Books are immortal sons deifying their sires. ~Plato



My body is here, but my mind has already teed off. ~Author Unknown



No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude. ~Author Unknown



Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. ~David Lloyd George



Life, not the parson, teaches conduct. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.



I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other.... ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854



I swim across a sea of quotes, splashing in the words and riding the waves of wisdom. ~Terri Guillemets



The important thing is not to stop questioning. ~Albert Einstein



I feel something like a powerful oppression, like an immense fatigue after marching and marching across fever-laden jungles, or by the shores of deadly lakes... and I am flooded by discouragement, so that it seems I shall never be able to escape from myself again. ~"The Garden," Chapter 9



The sound of a car door opening in front of you is similar to the sound of a gun being cocked. ~Amy Webster



While you are destroying your mind watching the worthless, brain-rotting drivel on TV, we on the Internet are exchanging, freely and openly, the most uninhibited, intimate and, yes, shocking details about our config.sys settings. ~Dave Barry