#ra

I would much rather be a better mother or better human being than I would be a singer. Fortunately for me singing makes me a living. ↗

— Tanya Tucker

#better #better mother #fortunately #human #human being

We live on a 500-acre ranch, beautiful ranch. ↗

— Tanya Tucker

#live #ranch

I trained as a stage actor and was given a lot of technical tools to play with. ↗

— Alan Tudyk

#given #i #lot #play #stage

I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist. ↗

— Edward Tufte

#certainly #i #i am #intellectual #moral

I hope that I am generous and tolerant, but certainly on the intellectual side I think that there are discoverable truths, and some things that are closer approximations to the truth than others. ↗

— Edward Tufte

#approximations #certainly #closer #discoverable #generous

I was writing a chapter of Beautiful Evidence on the subject of the sculptural pedestal, which led to my thinking about what's up on the pedestal - the great leader. ↗

— Edward Tufte

#beautiful #chapter #evidence #great #i

That is to say, nature's laws are causal; they reveal themselves by comparison and difference, and they operate at every multivariate space/time point. ↗

— Edward Tufte

#comparison #difference #every #laws #nature

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them. ↗

— Voltaire

#before #destroying #laws #shade #slight

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

— John Tukey

#focus #graphical #numerical #quantities #unexpected

As a West Side kid fooling around with boxing gloves, I had been, for some reason of temperament, more interested in dodging a blow than in striking one. ↗

— Gene Tunney

#been #blow #boxing #dodging #fooling