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college honor problem
Helen Keller was blind and deaf when she graduated from college with honors. So what's your problem? Charles Stanley
college silence black
My first college roommate greeted me with a shocked silence followed by, 'So. . .you're black. Al Roker
college years expected
I never expected to leave college early-especially after just one year. Chris Bosh
college thinking feelings
You think you're grown in college but you're not, because everything is kind of controlled. You lose the camaraderie and suddenly find yourself alone in an apartment just feeling lost.
college class theater
When I entered college, I wasn't sure what I was going to do. My advisor happened to be from the theater department, and he encouraged me to take some classes there, which I did. David Selby
college what-matters more-time
Your education never stops and college is just the beginning. You come out of college with a huge advantage in that you've ideally and more times than not you've come out with a love of learning and that's what matters above all. David McCullough
college punishment liable
I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment. David Knopfler
college long together
We essentially spent our college years together [with Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg], so those were the kind of lasting friendships and the bond you form during those years, and those friendships last a really long time. David Krumholtz
college favorites-things journalism
My favorite thing is still journalism. I'm almost 50. This has been my life ever since I was in college. David Talbot
statistics observation application
The bearings of this observation lays in the application of it. Charles Dickens
statistics probability
History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities. Alan Greenspan
statistics firsts
Statistics is the first of the inexact sciences. Edmond de Goncourt
statistics ends scissors
The thing with high-tech is that you always end up using scissors. David Hockney
statistics computer program
In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently. Alan Kay
statistics life-is uncertain
Human life is proverbially uncertain; few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company. Arthur Eddington
statistics theory results
It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.
statistics eyeballs rely
When all else failed, you had to rely on eyeball intrumentation. Arthur C. Clarke
statistics possibility refutation
It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation.
today lasts next
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem. Alan Perlis
today politics tomorrow
Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend. Al Sharpton
today problem gender
Yes, there's a problem with gender as it is today, and we must fix it, we must do better. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
today states form
States created markets. Markets require states. Neither could continue without the other, at least, in anything like the forms we would recognize today. David Graeber
today
Place only your kindest thoughts on everything you experience today. Meet yourself. Byron Katie
today year
We're in a much different place today than we were a year ago. Randy Waynick
today intention literal
I've never had any intentions about anything. That's why I am where I am today, which is neither here nor there, in a literal sense. Edward Gorey
today wonder
Way off in 2060, I wonder what we do today will look like in perspective, and after it's been sifted through the objectivity of time. Loretta Young
today bread enough
Bread for today is bread enough. Edward McKendree Bounds