Summarizing Quotes

• We have the duty of formulating, of summarizing, and of communicating our conclusions, in intelligible form, in recognition of the right of other free minds to utilize them in making their own decisions.

  Ronald Fisher

  Decision, Mind, Recognition

  "Chances Are: Adventures in Probability". Book by Michael Kaplan and Ellen Kaplan, 2003.

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• Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream, Royal, Paraphrasing

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• The biggest lie is the idea that we are entitled to a meaningful and coherent summarizing, a conclusion, of something which never concludes. In that regard, this is the lie I'm telling myself so I don't set fire to anything.

  David Milch

  Meaningful, Lying, Fire

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• Strange, when one thinks of all the other boys, infinite experimental kisses, test tube infatuations, crushes, pseudo-loves. All through this physical separation, through the testing and the trying of the others, there has been this peculiar rapport, comradeship, of us two so alike, so similar, but for science-boy and humanities-girl - the introspection, self examination, biannual deep summarizing conversations, and then the platonic parting.

  Sylvia Plath

  Crush, Girl, Kissing

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• There's a dangerous bottom-lining, and super-summarizing that happens in a lot of our press and our media, and sort of our politicians' talking points, that's dangerously simple. I don't know a better way to say it. And there's usually a lot more complicated facts going on than what is quoted and quotable.

  Seth Gordon

  Simple, Media, Talking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Jane Austen easily used half a page describing someone else's eyes; she would not appreciate summarizing her reading tastes in ten titles.

  Tracy Chevalier

  Reading, Eye, Appreciate

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