#cs

Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#method #quantitative #statistics #sterility #triumph

One similarity I see between peers and some of the people who read my books is that comics were definitely an outlet for us. ↗

— Brian Michael Bendis

#books #comics #definitely #i #i see

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#desire #first #law #make #must

Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#baby #book #cannibal #genuine #lovingly

I think one of the things that we are facing right now is that we've stopped listening to each other in our politics. ↗

— Michael Bennett

#facing #i #i think #listening #now

It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#lead #medicine #policy #politics #rhetoric

All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#burning #demonic #get #heretics #need

Our economics are not baseball's economics. Our game is not baseball's game. Our owners are not baseball's owners, with one or two exceptions. Our union is not baseball's union. What we do has to be crafted and suited to address hockey, to address the NHL, to address our 30 teams and our 700-plus players. ↗

— Gary Bettman

#baseball #crafted #economics #exceptions #game

The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics. ↗

— Jello Biafra

#down #ethics #grass #grass roots #had

Before I became governor of the great state of Alaska, I was mayor of my hometown. And since our opponents in this presidential election seem to look down on that experience, let me explain to them what the job involves. I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a 'community organizer,' except that you have actual responsibilities. ↗

— Sarah Palin

#politics #rnc #experience