#survey

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The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere.


Michel De Certeau


#constituting #everywhere #formerly #great #great silence

The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold discoveries of '49 that Congress passed an act in 1853 providing for a survey of several lines from the Mississippi to the Pacific.


John Moody


#absolute necessity #act #after #became #congress

A telephone survey says that 51 percent of college students drink until they pass out at least once a month. The other 49 percent didn't answer the phone.


Craig Kilborn


#college #college students #drink #least #month

A recent survey conducted by the University of Minnesota concluded that meth was involved in as many as 81 percent of child protection cases in the state.


Mark Kennedy


#child #concluded #conducted #involved #many

When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.


Billie Jean King


#fortune #say #sports #successful #surveys

There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.


Fiona Shaw


#connected #demographic #determine #did #done

Forget romantic fiction, a survey has found that most women would rather read a good book than go shopping, have sex, or sleep.


Janet Street-Porter


#fiction #forget #found #go #good

As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs along for centuries, ever responsive to the strain of the increasing needs of a growing population and an enlarging domain.


Cleveland Abbe


#also #centuries #definite #domain #end

But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science.


David Brin


#biology #far #find #honestly #i

When William the Conqueror commissioned a great survey of his English realm at Gloucester in 1085, the result was a work so thorough, fair, dispassionate, and wide-ranging that it seemed to the succeeding generations to have come from another world.


James Buchan


#come #commissioned #conqueror #dispassionate #english