#rob

An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem. ↗

— John Tukey

#approximate #deal #exact #good #good deal

They'll probably start working on my movie sometime... They are doing a complete movie of my life story. It will not be based on any negativity. It will be more about my life, from a kid, how I came up and why I came through. ↗

— Ike Turner

#any #based #came #complete #doing

I think that training is important. I think you need to learn as much as you can learn. I would say that it's important and probably crucial, but I wouldn't say that everyone has to have it. ↗

— Aida Turturro

#everyone #i #i think #important #learn

I would like to tell our American, British and Spanish friends that the Iraqi crisis is not a problem between the United States and France, but between those who want to move forward in the logic of war and the international community. ↗

— Dominique de Villepin

#between #british #community #crisis #forward

Food during my early years was a very difficult issue for me. I grew up in an addictive family. My mother had serious problems with alcohol and prescription drugs. I was an overweight kid. I can remember back in those days there weren't the strategies that there are today to deal with those issues. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#alcohol #back #days #deal #difficult

Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#adapt #case #faster #inventions #make

The original lists were probably carved in stone and represented longer periods of time. They contained things like 'Get More Clay. Make Better Oven.' ↗

— David Viscott

#carved #clay #contained #get #like

Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#abraham lincoln #bought #freed #lincoln #lodge

We are witnessing a slow, steady takeover of our true freedoms. We are becoming a socialist nation, and whoever can't see this is probably hoping it isn't true. If we permit Mr. Obama to take over all our industries, if we permit him to raise our taxes to support unconstitutional causes, then we will be in default. This great America will become a paralyzed nation. ↗

— Jon Voight

#become #becoming #causes #default #freedoms

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking. ↗

— Voltaire

#no problem #problem #sustained #thinking #withstand