Sample Quotes

• Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health.

  Julia Child

  Inspirational, Happiness, Food

  "Julia Child: What I've Learned". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. June 2001.

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• The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study.

  Kenneth Lee Pike

  Men, Mind, Study

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• God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis.

  Kenneth Lee Pike

  Analysis

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• Europe has never been a monolithic space, it contains a lot of people, a lot of languages and infinite supplies of history. I didn't need to do anything to showcase diversity. It is a condition of life and art in Europe, contained in every random sample.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Art, Diversity, People

  "Against Eternal Provincialism: An Interview with Aleksandar Hemon". The Amazon Book Review Interview, www.amazonbookreview.com. December 16, 2009.

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• [Coining the phrase "test of significance"] Critical tests of this kind may be called tests of significance, and when such tests are available we may discover whether a second sample is or is not significantly different from the first.

  Ronald Fisher

  Different, Phrases, May

  "Statistical Methods for Research Workers". Book by Ronald Fisher, 1925.

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• I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Party, Drinking, Beer

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Pasteur himself was absolutely fearless. Anxious to secure a sample of saliva straight from the jaws of a rabid dog, I once saw him with the glass tube held between his lips draw a few drops of the deadly saliva from the mouth of a rabid bull-dog, held on the table by two assistants, their hands protected by leather gloves.

  Axel Munthe

  Dog, Glasses, Hands

  Axel Munthe (1930). “The Story of San Michele”

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• A whole big, giant world full of men. Men with blue eyes. Brown eyes. Green eyes. And indescribable shades in between. Tall men. Short men. Skinny men. Built men. And all combinations thereof. Nice men (so I've heard, but never really seen). Mean men. Decent men, indecent. And who knows which is the best kind to have, to hold, to love? I'd say, with so many men in the world, it would pay to sample a few. Scratch that. More than a few. Lots and lots. And then a few more. And maybe, after years of research, you might find one worth not throwing back. But hey, the fun is in the fishing.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Fun, Nice, Eye

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• If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.

  Nate Silver

  Snapshots, Representatives, Ifs

  "Hit political blogger Nate Silver on future of predictive modeling". Interview with David K. Randall, www.reuters.com. November 9, 2012.

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• We may not have a sample size larger than one, or we may not have unlimited resources - it's a TV show, and we generally turn these things around in about a week or so.

  Jamie Hyneman

  Tv Shows, May, Tvs

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Sometimes the Lord gives us a free sample of religious experience, but for more, we must pay a price with the currency of sincere dedication to the process of cleansing.

  Radhanath Swami

  Religious, Dedication, Giving

  Radhanath Swami (2016). “The Journey Home”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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• The rain ...falls upon the just and the unjust alike; a thing which would not happen if I were superintending the rain's affairs. No, I would rain softly and sweetly on the just, but if I caught a sample of the unjust outdoors, I would drown him.

  Mark Twain

  Rain, Fall, Unjust

  Mark Twain (2015). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.221, Univ of California Press

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• I had to realize that the use of samples has its rules, too.

  Klaus Schulze

  Use, Realizing

  Interview with Jason Gross, www.furious.com. May 1997.

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• If you asked a sample of Americans "What is the temperature of Mars?" about 8% would say they don't know.

  Herbert Stein

  Mars, Temperature, Knows

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• When you know absolutely nothing about the topic, make your forecast by asking a carefully selected probability sample of 300 others who don't know the answer either.

  Edgar Fiedler

  Asking, Answers, Topics

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• Let probability and sample size do the heavy lifting.

  Donald Miller

  Size, Heavy, Probability

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• I thinks it really interesting how they throw the world music samples in there. I often wonder what it would be like to do something like that, but use my lyrics and my kind of style.

  Marc Almond

  Thinking, Europe, Interesting

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• We're taking up some science experiments, some crystal growth things, we have a refrigerator that carries up some samples, new samples that go into the station, we bring the old ones home; we have a lot of clothing, we have a lot of food-U.S. and Russian food.

  Linda M. Godwin

  Home, Growth, Crystals

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• It is important to consider whether the sample size selected by the Environmental Genome Project will provide sufficient power to discover most alleles relevant to gene-environment interactions.

  Samuel Wilson

  Power, Environmental, Important

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• It's my first presenting role so I'll be nervous, but it's going to be great fun. I can't wait to sample the food and meet the celebrities. Hopefully I can inject some of my own glamour.

  Nicole Appleton

  Fun, Waiting, Style

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• A digital sound sample in angry rap doesn't correspond to the graffiti but the wall.

  Jaron Lanier

  Wall, Rap, Graffiti

  Jaron Lanier (2010). “You Are Not A Gadget: A Manifesto”, p.136, Penguin UK

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• My first concert isn't that cool or ironic. I wish it had been like, "My first concert was the Backstreet Boys," but the first concert I went to, I think, was this band called The Samples.

  Nick Kroll

  Boys, Thinking, Ironic

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• For instance, take this sample: he has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights, the one ecstasy that stands first and foremost in the heart of every individual of his race - and of ours - sexual intercourse!It is as if a lost and perishing person in a roasting desert should be told by a rescuer he might choose and have all longed-for things but one, and he should elect to leave out water!

  Mark Twain

  Heart, Race, Water

  "Letters from the Earth" (1940)

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• You can count on the fingers of one hand the times a B sample has not confirmed the result of the A sample. It's almost always a delaying tactic.

  Dick Pound

  Hands, Tactics, Results

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• This is a unique aquarium in that a large portion of its collection features freshwater species, and it specializes in fish, amphibians and reptiles from the southwestern part of the country. The River Journey exhibit transports visitors from the Appalachian highlands through ponds, rivers and swamps, all the way to the seacoast. The recently added Ocean Journey exhibit allows visitors to sample a variety of saltwater environments.

  John Grant

  Country, Ocean, Unique

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