Barbara Demick on statistic
Barbara Demick3 quotes“One death is a tragedy; a thousand is a statistic.”
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There was the natural human survival instinct to be optimistic.
Barbara DemickBarbara Demick The night sky in North Korea might be the most brilliant in northeast Asia, the only airspace spared the coal dust, Gobi Desert sand, and carbon monoxide choking the rest of the continent.
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Do not measure yourself by success, failure, or a degree. Measure your life by the dreams you have.
Natalie MooneyNatalie Mooney Everything ceases to fade Leaving my soul all the pain.
Sayed AbbasSayed Abbas To attain success everyone speaks about consistency, don’t give up & patience but no one talk about the start.
Rohit DeoraRohit Deora Take a moment to look back. Change the process slightly from your discovery. Start again.
Hei-Ran ParkHei-Ran Park The silence was broken with the music of your pain, but with every note i could see a part of you healing.
Sophie AliaSophie Alia It has been the craziest year filled with so many adventures, amazing friends, accomplishments & memories.
Little PaulsonLittle Paulson They say what is lost can always be found in the last place you look but I wouldn’t be so sure that you’ll ever see this version of me again.
Aimee C. HoveyAimee C. Hovey I want to see our demons complement each other for the rest of our lives.
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It is an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way; and we grasp more fiercely at research, statistics, and technical aids in sex when we have lost the values and meaning of love.
Rollo MayRollo May There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Benjamin DisraeliBenjamin Disraeli Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
Jean BaudrillardJean Baudrillard If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists’ antagonism toward the gold standard.
Alan GreenspanAlan Greenspan If you torture statistics long enough, they’ll eventually confess the truth
Alan Kooi SimpsonAlan Kooi Simpson Just look at the statistics: Each university has tens of thousands of applications for students who want to be in art school, but they can only accept a few hundred.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei Whether statistics be an art or a science… or a scientific art.
Adolphe QueteletAdolphe Quetelet Normal is enormously susceptible to swinging with the gusts of politics and history.
Adam LevineAdam Levine