#graphical

Numerical quantities focus on expected values, graphical summaries on unexpected values. ↗

— John Tukey

#focus #graphical #numerical #quantities #unexpected

The particular feature of Berlin - well, all you need to do is look at the map: the geographical position of the city right in the heart of Europe, and the separation of the most powerful two blocs we've ever had in history, which went all the way through Germany. ↗

— Markus Wolf

#blocs #city #europe #ever #feature

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#could #flies #geographical #goose #mend

Among peoples who are geographically grouped together like the peoples of Europe there must exist a sort of federal link. It is this link which I wish to endeavour to establish. ↗

— Aristide Briand

#endeavour #establish #europe #exist #federal

Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains teaches us, that species have a definite existence, and a centralization in geological time as well as in geographical space, and that no species is repeated in time. ↗

— Edward Forbes

#definite #existence #geographical #geological #knowledge

We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage. ↗

— Dan Miller

#heritage #i #i think #physical #share

The stories from Iran's present and past are reminders that freedom, democracy and human rights, or fundamentalism, fascism and terrorism are not geographically and culturally determined, but universal. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#democracy #determined #fascism #freedom #fundamentalism

Japan's alliance with the U.S. will only grow in importance amid the increasingly difficult security situation surrounding our country, thus I think it is necessary to keep the marines in Okinawa, a geographically strategic location from the standpoint of maintaining deterrence. ↗

— Yoshihiko Noda

#amid #country #deterrence #difficult #geographically

If you care to define the South as a poor, rural region with lousy race relations, that South survives only in geographical shreds and patches and most Southerners don't live there any more. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#care #define #geographical #live #lousy

Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight. ↗

— Jessica Savitch

#anyone #autobiographical #best #me #occurred