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• Scientific data are not taken for museum purposes; they are taken as a basis for doing something. If nothing is to be done with the data, then there is no use in collecting any. The ultimate purpose of taking data is to provide a basis for action or a recommendation for action. The step intermediate between the collection of data and the action is prediction.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Taken, Museums, Data

  Journal of the American Statistical Association On a Classification of the Problems of Statistical Inference Volume 37, Number 218, June 1942 (p. 173)

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• My collection of rare books concerns only books that don't tell the truth.

  Umberto Eco

  Book, Telling The Truth, Concern

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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• I did think reviewers were supposed to be polite about story collections - collections are rather delicate creatures in the literary environment - but not everybody got this memo, I guess.

  Lorrie Moore

  Thinking, Stories, Environment

  "'I would like to live in that year forever.'". Interview with Michael Hafford, logger.believermag.com. April 24, 2014.

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• I really like looking at other people's book collections when I'm at someone's house. I think it is an amazing cross section of a person's brain and lifestyle. I think everyone should photograph their book spines and make a website. Seriously.

  Phil Elvrum

  Book, Thinking, People

  Interview with Brandon Stosuy, believermag.com. July 1, 2009.

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• My drawing came out of editorial-style cartoons. Music was one thing and art was another, and there weren't really any standards for my art. My work was just drawings. They weren't done with any aspirations of becoming a part of punk scene. They weren't about punk. They were just collections of drawings, some of which I xeroxed and sold.

  Raymond Pettibon

  Art, Drawing, Style

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• [Photography] allows me to accede to an infra-knowledge; it supplies me with a collection of partial objects and can flatter a certain fetishism of mine: for this 'me' which like knowledge, which nourishes a kind of amorous preference for it. In the same way, I like certain biographical features which, in a writer's life, delight me as much as certain photographs; I have called these features 'biographemes'; Photography has the same relation to History that the biographeme has to biography.

  Roland Barthes

  Photography, Delight, Biographies

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• The dictionary has been in the making for several decades, and the result is well worth the wait. MacLean and those who worked with her have consulted with Iñupiaq speakers from across Alaska's North Slope to compile a comprehensive collection of word stems, along with postbases, grammatical endings, and an array of other valuable material. . . . This dictionary will prove fascinating for anyone interested in the Iñupiat and their language.

  Lawrence Kaplan

  Alaska, Waiting, Language

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• First, there was Confucius. Then, the sayings of Chairman Mao. And now the pithy, ironic, and humorous insights of Ai Weiwei. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this collection, which reflects a well-developed philosophy as well as a keen understanding of the Chinese Communist system. This is China made easy and interesting.

  Jerome A. Cohen

  Philosophy, Reading, Humorous

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• After about midday my dad sent cars from his private collection for us. We were told to get in. We had almost lost contact with my father and brothers because things had got out of hand. I saw with my own eyes the [Iraqi] army withdrawing and the terrified faces of the Iraqi soldiers who, unfortunately, were running away and looking around them. Missiles were falling on my left and my right - they were not more than fifty or one hundred metres away. We moved in small cars. I had a gun between my feet just in case.

  Raghad Hussein

  Running, Brother, Dad

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• ...in every religion the priest insists on five things -
  First: There is a God.
  Second: He has made known his will.
  Third: He has selected me to explain this message.
  Fourth: We will now take up a collection; and
  Fifth: Those who fail to subscribe will certainly be damned.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Messages, Firsts, Failing

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1920). “Ingersoll: Fifty Great Selections, Lectures, Tributes, After Dinner Speeches and Essays, Carefully Selected from the Twelve Volume Dresden Edition of Colonel Ingersoll's Complete Works”

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• Great quotation collections glean the millennia, distill essences, and battle for bragging rights about who’s bigger, who’s smarter, who’s best. Who-knows-who-said-what has a market, a history, and a hall of fame.

  Willis Regier

  Essence, Bragging Rights, Battle

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• A book collection is a cross between a Rorschach test and This Is Y our Life. It marks your life clearly like rings on a tree.

  Margo Kaufman

  Book, Tree, Rorschach

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• collections are amusing only in the making; afterwards they are like sporting prints without the sport. The sons of collectors inherit only the corpse of their fathers' satisfied passion.

  Marthe Bibesco

  Sports, Father, Passion

  Marthe Bibesco (1928). “Catherine-Paris”

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• My father was a very good amateur pianist, and he had a collection of books on technique. One of the things he had was a small volume of exercises by Rudolf Ganz, in which Ganz mentions the pedagogical work of the Swiss composer, Émile-Robert Blanchet, who wrote a ton of polyphonic exercises for one-hand. These exercises were a great help for finger independence, which I acquired early on. This might have given me somewhat of an edge, a facility to be able to knock any obstacle that was in my way.

  Marc-Andre Hamelin

  Father, Book, Exercise

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. November 8, 2013.

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• Macy's has severed ties with Donald Trump and no longer will carry his men's wear collection. From now on, men who want to look like Donald Trump will have to hunt and kill their own hair piece.

  Conan O'Brien

  Men, Hair, Ties

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• Philosophers of science have repeatedly demonstrated that more than one theoretical construction can always be placed upon a given collection of data.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Data, Philosopher, Construction

  Thomas S. Kuhn (2012). “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.76, University of Chicago Press

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• I never refused autograph seekers, unless they were old enough to look like collection agents.

  Joe Pepitone

  Looks, Agents, Enough

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• Although all spiritual teachings originate from the same Source, once they become verbalized and written down they are obviously no more than a collection of words-and a word is nothing more than a signpost.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Teaching, Source

  "The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment". Book by Eckhart Tolle, 1997.

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• There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page, it's not just a collection of notes.

  Harrison Birtwistle

  Writing, Ideas, Pages

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• In the psalms, we have a collection of 150 prayers that were inspired originally by the Holy Ghost. If you want to know how God is pleased and honored in prayer, why not immerse yourself in the prayers that he himself has inspired?

  R. C. Sproul

  Prayer, Why Not, Want

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• We are told that Sin consists in acting contrary to God's commands, but we are also told that God is omnipotent. . . . This leads to frightful results. . . . The British State considers it the duty of an Englishman to kill people who are not English whenever a collection of elderly gentlemen in Westminster tells him to do so. . . . Church and State are placable enemies of both intelligence and virtue.

  Bertrand Russell

  Elderly, People, Gentleman

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• Pardon the plug, but what I like most about Toronto is Metro Morning's audience. I think it's got to be the most multi-faceted, multi-lingual, omni-curious collection of plugged-in people I've ever encountered.

  Andy Barrie

  Morning, Thinking, People

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• The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Men, Cities, House

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.240, Best Books on

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• America is a younger country than England, obviously, and as self-awareness is forming in America - are we a collection of immigrants, are we a load of Italians and Germans and Jews and Brits and Irish, or are we a country with a soul and an identity? - there was a subliminal sense, they knew that the writers would be the ones who would answer those questions.

  Martin Amis

  Country, Self, America

  "New New Yorker Martin Amis Talks Terrorism, Pornography, Idyllic Brooklyn and American Decline". Interview with David Wallace-Wells, www.vulture.com. July 22, 2012.

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• We usually start by asking the collaborators to submit a couple of ideas. Then, Larry and I will sort through all the submissions and choose the ones based on what we think will add most to the collection. Once the scripts are written, the stages are: rehearse, record, edit, sound design, foley and finally, the mix.

  Glenn McQuaid

  Couple, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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