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<blockquote>Twenty-six new cases of the inflammatory lung disease sarcoidosis [were seen amongst rescuers] in the first five years after 9/11. Five or fewer rescuers got sarcoidosis anually before 9/11.<div align=right>New York Daily News <br>21 September 2007.</div></blockquote> | <blockquote>Twenty-six new cases of the inflammatory lung disease sarcoidosis [were seen amongst rescuers] in the first five years after 9/11. Five or fewer rescuers got sarcoidosis anually before 9/11.<div align=right>New York Daily News <br>21 September 2007.</div></blockquote> | ||
<blockquote>Actually, I like the Poles' second idea even better. Instead of re-enacting a battle, they suggested, the summiteers should re-sit advanced level mathematics. Voting weights should be based on the square roots of the member states' populations. (Pocket caclulators allowed.)<div align=right>The Sunday Telegraph <br>24 June 2007.</div></blockquote> | |||
Revision as of 16:17, 5 February 2008
Quotation
One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fate from The Conduct of Life (1860, rev.1876)
Forsooth
Twenty-six new cases of the inflammatory lung disease sarcoidosis [were seen amongst rescuers] in the first five years after 9/11. Five or fewer rescuers got sarcoidosis anually before 9/11.
New York Daily News
21 September 2007.
Actually, I like the Poles' second idea even better. Instead of re-enacting a battle, they suggested, the summiteers should re-sit advanced level mathematics. Voting weights should be based on the square roots of the member states' populations. (Pocket caclulators allowed.)
The Sunday Telegraph
24 June 2007.