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We think that we have great potential but never reach it. ↗

— Josh Silver

#never #potential #reach #think

Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in its entire print collection, right? But most of it is like cat videos on YouTube or 13-year-olds exchanging text messages about the next Twilight movie. ↗

— Nate Silver

#amount #cat #collection #congress #data

If you have reason to think that yesterday's forecast went wrong, there is no glory in sticking to it. ↗

— Nate Silver

#glory #reason #sticking #think #went

The Protestant Reformation had a lot to do with the printing press, where Martin Luther's theses were reproduced about 250,000 times, and so you had widespread dissemination of ideas that hadn't circulated in the mainstream before. ↗

— Nate Silver

#before #circulated #dissemination #had #hadn

I sang at the Inaugural prayer service at the National Cathedral. ↗

— Michael W. Smith

#i #national #prayer #sang #service

When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by 'The Onion' - or be the subject of a cartoon in 'The New Yorker.' I guess I'm kind of an outlier there. ↗

— Nate Silver

#analysis #become #cartoon #expect #fame

But some actors I have met possess an intelligence that I can only dream of. It's about character, it's about behavior. They understand things about people that I simply don't see. ↗

— Ron Silver

#behavior #character #dream #i #i can

I can't talk about foreign policy like anyone who's spent their life reading and learning foreign policy. But as a citizen in a democracy, it's very important that I participate in that. ↗

— Ron Silver

#anyone #citizen #democracy #foreign #foreign policy

I'm a very ritualistic person. I have to wash my face twice, and on the second wash before I rinse, I brush my teeth, then I rinse, then I floss, then I put on moisturizer. I'm ritualistic. Jewishness is very ritualistic. ↗

— Sarah Silverman

#brush #face #floss #i #person

I'm doing a lot of stand-up, but not like when you're living in New York and you can do three sets a night and it's your life, and you sleep all day and you wake up and you eat with a bunch of other comics and then get ready for the night. ↗

— Sarah Silverman

#bunch #comics #day #doing #eat