Methods Quotes

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Statistics may be defined as "a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty. — W. Allen Wallis
Most traditional methods of working on oneself are mostly pain centered. People get to repeat over and over their painful emotions without knowing how to… — Eugene Gendlin
We must have a new reformation. There must come a violent break with that irresponsible, amusement-mad, paganized pseudo-religion which passes today for the faith of… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Most of the methods for measuring the lapse of time have, I believe, been the contrivance of monks and religious recluses, who, finding time hang… — William Hazlitt
The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify. Statistical terms and statistical methods are… — Darrell Huff
History proves that dictatorships do not grow out of strong and successful governments, but out of weak and helpless ones. If by democratic methods people… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
As the mind learns to understand more complicated combinations of ideas, simpler formulae soon reduce their complexity; so truths that were discovered only by great… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
We scientists, whose tragic destination has been to help in making the methods of annihilation more gruesome and more effective, must consider it our solemn… — Albert Einstein
Nothing has changed in Russias policy. Her methods, her tactics, her maneuvers may change, but the pole starworld dominationis immutable. — Karl Marx
The policy of Russia is changeless. Its methods, its tactics, its maneuvers may change, but the polar star of its policy, world domination, is a… — Karl Marx
Racist, sexist, and homophobic thoughts cannot, alas, be abolished by fiat but only by the time-honored methods of persuasion, education and exposure to the other… — Barbara Ehrenreich
In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory. Indirect tactics,… — Sun Tzu
Writers themselves benefit from all helpful information about their task and methods. Readers, in turn, can have both their understanding and appreciation of literature enhanced… — Leland Ryken
The Town Clerkship, however, was the means of giving me a lesson in electoral methods. — Catherine Helen Spence
Do not let the Obama administration fool you with all their cunning Alinsky methods. And if you don't know what that method is, I implore… — Jon Voight
If the Court were to extend its reach to the base, judges could begin managing conditions of confinement, interrogation methods, and the use of information. — John Yoo
These repetitive words and phrases are merely methods of convincing the subconscious mind. — Claude M. Bristol
Thanks to our present surgical methods in physiology we can demonstrate at any time almost all phenomena of digestion without the loss of even a… — Ivan Pavlov
Social economic problems do not exist everywhere that an economic event plays a role as cause or effect - since problems arise only where the… — Max Weber
They [the mathematicians of the Enlightenment] defined their terms vaguely and used their methods loosely, and the logic of their arguments was made to fit… — Tobias Dantzig

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