#test

To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance. ↗

— Nate Silver

#answer #extent #find #know #making

Less than an hour before he'd congratulated himself on escaping all the traps of Earth, all the snares of Man. Not knowing that the greatest trap of all, the final and the fatal trap, lay on this present planet. ↗

— Clifford D. Simak

#earth #escaping #fatal #final #greatest

For the division of labor demands from the individual an ever more one-sided accomplishment, and the greatest advance in a one-sided pursuit only too frequently means dearth to the personality of the individual. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#advance #dearth #demands #division #ever

There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#between #conflict #contest #eden #error

We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#complications #events #faith #great #know

I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest. ↗

— Frank Sinatra

#contest #go #i #intelligent #like

For example, one way of giving yourself a strong incentive to reach your goal is to commit to pay money to someone if you fail. Better yet, you can specify that you will have to pay a certain sum to a cause that you detest. ↗

— Peter Singer

#cause #certain #commit #detest #example

Today, if you have an Internet connection, you have at your fingertips an amount of information previously available only to those with access to the world's greatest libraries - indeed, in most respects what is available through the Internet dwarfs those libraries, and it is incomparably easier to find what you need. ↗

— Peter Singer

#amount #available #connection #dwarfs #easier

I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art. ↗

— Edith Sitwell

#art #bores #flights #greatest #i

Casting a film, you can have the greatest actors in a film and it doesn't work. It's a combination of all of the elements. ↗

— Stellan Skarsgard

#combination #elements #film #greatest #work