He wasn't exactly hostile to facts, but he was apathetic about them.
-- Woolcott Gibbs
-- Woolcott Gibbs
Related:
- He became mellow before he became ripe.
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Alexander... - Facts were never pleasing to him. He acquired them with
reluctance and got rid of them with relief.
He was never on terms with them until he had stood... - He's not exactly operating on all
thrusters... - It's better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.
Philip... - If on the other hand he went to pay his respects to The Door and it
wasn't there .
what then? The answer, of course, was very simple.... - My counsin is a statistician and he regularly draws wild postulations from
which he deduces unwarrented assumptions which lead to his foregone
conclusions.
It is his job to support all of this with numerical... - He's making a fortune out of the things. People are smoking them.
building houses out of them...they'll be _eating_ them... - He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears,
but by diligent hard work, he overcame them." James...
