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Statistician Inspirational Quotes (2136)

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The mind has its arrangement it proceeds from principles to demonstrations. The heart has a different mode of proceeding.
Blaise Pascal
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No central banker would disagree with the proposition that inflation is primarily a monetary phenomenon. Not one of them will disagree that every inflation has been accompanied by a rapid increase in the quantity of money and every deflation by a decline in the quantity of money.
Milton Friedman
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Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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The person you are most afraid to contradict is yourself.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. C. S. LEWIS, Out of the Silent Planet True pleasures are paid for in advance false pleasures afterwards, with heavy and compound interest.
John Lubbock
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Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless.
Blaise Pascal
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The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Blaise Pascal
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Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them with glory, the other with shame.
Blaise Pascal
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Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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There are so many ways to lose, but so few ways to win. Perhaps the best way to achieve victory is to master all the rules for disaster, and then concentrate on avoiding them.
Victor Niederhoffer
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It is inconceivable that anyone will divulge a truly effective get-rich scheme for the price of a book. There is ample opportunity to use wealth in this world, and neither I nor my friends, nor anyone else I have ever met, has so much of it that they are interested in putting themselves at a disadvantage by sharing their secrets.
Victor Niederhoffer
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I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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No soul of high estate can take pleasure in slander. It betrays a weakness.
Blaise Pascal
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Clutter and confusion are failures of design, not attributes of information.
Edward Tufte
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A woman cannot live in the light of intellect. Society forbids it. Those conventional frivolities, which are called her 'duties', forbid it. Her 'domestic duties', high-sounding words, which, for the most part, are but bad habits (which she has not the courage to enfranchise herself from, the strength to break through), forbid it.
Florence Nightingale
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Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need.
Blaise Pascal
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The invisible hand in politics operates in the opposite direction to the invisible hand in the market.
Milton Friedman
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diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
Florence Nightingale
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Freedom is a rare and delicate plant. Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power.
Milton Friedman
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The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race.
Thomas Malthus
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The current oil crisis has not been produced by the oil companies. It is a result of governmental mismanagement exacerbated by the Mideast war.
Milton Friedman
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Your customers are the customers of other brands who occasionally buy you.
Andrew S. C. Ehrenberg
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I just want to help people do better research.
Andrew Gelman
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Standardization leads to rigidity, and rigidity causes things to break.
Bill James
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