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Edward Tufte

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QUEEN ELIZABETH II I think Bill Bradley has immense personal and intellectual integrity. I think he cares deeply about ...
PAUL WELLSTONE I think Bill Bradley has immense personal and intellectual integrity. I think he cares deeply about ...
PAUL WELLSTONE Ah, much deluded! lay aside
Thy threats, and anger misapplied!
Art not afraid with sounds ...
JOHN MILTON The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one ...
NIKOLA TESLA My family and I are deeply sorry for all that Vice President Cheney has had to go through this past ...
HARRY WHITTINGTON The findings of this survey are disturbing to say the least. The Hispanic community is clearly strug...
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STACEY BALLIS What I think is so special about this honor is its not so much about the records and championships b...
MARGIE WRIGHT We can put a stake through the heart of Islamic State as an army. We can put a stake through the hea...
DAVID PETRAEUS We don't think there's any evidence at all that he has endorsed terrorism. In fact, there is overwhe...
JAMEEL JAFFER Yes Rosalie, we all know how proficient of an assassin you are.
STEPHENIE MEYER She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow.
JERRY SPINELLI I urge you to read Eternal Treblinka and think deeply about its important message.
JANE GOODALL It's all about presentation. These ladies know how to put it out there.
ELIZABETH THOMPSON One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
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RAMANA PEMMARAJU The evidence is in that tech is finally turning around. That's most clearly demonstrated with teleco...
MICHAEL DAVIES The evidence is in that tech is finally turning around, ... That's most clearly demonstrated with te...
MICHAEL DAVIES Hatred is about possession. It is all-consuming, cruel, and vainglorious. When love is allowed to fe...
NENIA CAMPBELL The evidence is clear that increasing the price of cigarettes is one of the most effective ways to r...
JEANETTE SCHATZ By the way, I love you.”
“That’s why we're here.
STEPHENIE MEYER We're pleased that Sen. Fitz-Gerald has recognized that her bill has some serious effects and probab...
CHRIS ROSE Knowing when and how to rest is knowing when and how to acknowledge your limitations and your depend...
CRAIG GROESCHEL The state has reviewed the evidence and we are not aware at this time of there being any evidence to...
ALAN MARTIN Enrollment increase is clearly regionalized, clearly it is lumpy, it is uneven from place to place, ...
CHESTER FINN About my books, that's all that I think the public has, in its normal way, to know. My private l...
PATRICK O'BRIAN Florida has its own rhythm, too. People go to work, they watch their children learn and grow and sta...
JEB BUSH Deeply happy people are even thankful for the trials and tragedies they pass through.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE There's a lot of evidence that some of those fears are coming to pass.
DOUG CHAPIN Sports has always been a pass-through. You pay for something, and then you pass it through to televi...
JOHN MADDEN How I wish I only felt using my hands and not with my whole heart.
ALFA H There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.
DOUGLAS ADAMS Just about every available female--and some unavailable--seemed to think the way to his heart was th...
KELLY MORAN Bite me.
STEPHENIE MEYER I am using my own computer. I am using a borrowed projector. The Power Point (presentation) I assemb...
BOB MURPHY The evidence in this case has established that Dr. Reddy violated numerous state and federal laws, ....
VINCENT NOLAN A community that sees so clearly its own disadvantage or its own hardships also has a harder time se...
MATTHEW DESMOND It's going to be a problem just coming to consensus at all. Every state has its own mixture of taxat...
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DR. RICHARD IRWIN Everything has some consciousness, and we tap into that. It is about energy at its most basic level.
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BOB EDWARDS We just stuck together and decided to fight our way through, put our heads down ... way back two spr...
JOEL KLATT My journey through life has led me through both light and dark places, and it's because of those...
JESSIE PAVELKA THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE Persons that are well affected to religion, that receive ...
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ISAAC GEWIRTZ Is it not true, then, that my life with all its limitations touches at many points the life of the W...
HELEN KELLER The committee now has both the testimony and there is sufficient evidence to feel comfortable about ...
ROBERT TORRICELLI The problem is at heart how companies are managed and not about waiting for some technological silve...
ALUN MICHAEL I've never had my heart broken. It's a very sad state of affairs. I think everybody should h...
SALLY FIELD She is doing extremely well, has no evidence of disease at all and we're very optimistic about her b...
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DAVID BRADY I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations...
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BHAGAVAD GITA If "how to do it" were the answer, it'd be done. It's how you do the "hows" that's most important.
JEFF OLSON There is no one right way.

Just figure out what works for you!
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JALAL AD-DIN RUMI Being clever was when you looked at how things were and used the evidence to work out something new.
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MICHAEL GREELEY I'm extremely pleased and excited that Robbie has invested in the club. It clearly shows that he car...
BILL BRATT I pass the test that says a man who isn't a socialist at 20 has no heart, and a man who is a sociali...
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MICHAEL LEWIS We are clearly in a state of economic uncertainty and the prudent thing to do in such times is to do...
DAVID ROSENBERG How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
ALEXANDER SMITH Let them travel freely, from heart to lips.
Feelings they are, don't cut them off at tips.
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ANDREW TO

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EDWARD TUFTE If you like overheads, you'll love PowerPoint.
EDWARD TUFTE That is to say, nature's laws are causal; they reveal themselves by comparison and difference, a...
EDWARD TUFTE The point of the essay is to change things.
EDWARD TUFTE The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytic...
EDWARD TUFTE The goal is to provide analytical tools that will last students a lifetime.
EDWARD TUFTE Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design.
EDWARD TUFTE The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm.
EDWARD TUFTE What gets left out is the narrative between the bullets, which would tell us who's going to do w...
EDWARD TUFTE I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their wor...
EDWARD TUFTE It is straightforward for me to be ethical, responsible, and kind-hearted because I have the resourc...
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EDWARD TUFTE It's not that PowerPoint brought the Columbia down, but the method of presentation broke up the argu...
EDWARD TUFTE The point is that analytical designs are not to be decided on their convenience to the user or neces...
EDWARD TUFTE All I have to do is educate myself enough in the field to be able to do what I want. It's very pract...
EDWARD TUFTE The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science; the leading edge in beauty is in high art.
EDWARD TUFTE The know-your-audience philosophy can be a big step down the road to pandering to the audience.
EDWARD TUFTE If you like overheads, you'll love PowerPoint.
EDWARD TUFTE The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of se...
EDWARD TUFTE 95% of the published literature is junk.Only 5% you have to read. You have to identify it. You have ...
EDWARD TUFTE Second, simply use PowerPoint as a slide projector rather than an information tool.
EDWARD TUFTE The central claim of the book is that effective analytic designs entail turning thinking principles ...
EDWARD TUFTE Public discussions are part of what it takes to make changes in the trillions of graphics published ...
EDWARD TUFTE A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity.
EDWARD TUFTE The idea of trying to create things that last - forever knowledge - has guided my work for a long ti...
EDWARD TUFTE What gets left out is the narrative between the bullets, which would tell us who's going to do what ...
EDWARD TUFTE My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.
EDWARD TUFTE The key argument is that cognitive tasks should be turned into design principles.
EDWARD TUFTE There are many true statements about complex topics that are too long to fit on a PowerPoint slide.
EDWARD TUFTE What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentatio...
EDWARD TUFTE I hope that I am generous and tolerant, but certainly on the intellectual side I think that there ar...
EDWARD TUFTE Rather, the point is to recognize the tightness between seeing and thinking on an intellectual level...
EDWARD TUFTE I was writing a chapter of Beautiful Evidence on the subject of the sculptural pedestal, which led t...
EDWARD TUFTE We shouldn’t abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.
EDWARD TUFTE What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of present...
EDWARD TUFTE I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist.
EDWARD TUFTE Design cannot rescue failed content.
EDWARD R. TUFTE What about confusing clutter? Information overload? Doesn't data have to be "boiled down" and "simpl...
EDWARD R. TUFTE Above all else show the data.
EDWARD R. TUFTE The person of wisdom is the person of years.
EDWARD The thing that impresses me most about Americans is the way parents obey their children.
EDWARD Some follow ideas. Others think of them.
EDWARD If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of n...
EDWARD HOPPER The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.
EDWARD HOPPER If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county.
EDWARD HOPPER I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.
EDWARD HOPPER I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking.
EDWARD HOPPER Well, I have a very simple method of painting.
EDWARD HOPPER It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pu...
EDWARD HOPPER Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before...
EDWARD HOPPER I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested visio...
EDWARD HOPPER In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovati...
EDWARD HOPPER I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to ...
EDWARD HOPPER In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of...
EDWARD HOPPER My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impress...
EDWARD HOPPER The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this idea...
EDWARD HOPPER No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
EDWARD HOPPER There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house.
EDWARD HOPPER Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
EDWARD HOPPER Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result ...
EDWARD HOPPER After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance a...
EDWARD HOPPER More of me comes out when I improvise.
EDWARD HOPPER What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
EDWARD HOPPER The only real influence I've ever had was myself.
EDWARD HOPPER We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.
EDWARD BOND There was an old man with a beard, who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four l...
EDWARD LEAR The simple act of caring is heroic.
EDWARD ALBERT I am all for the short and merry life.
EDWARD FITZGERALD I'm looking for the best person irregardless of political party, of race or religion, or color o...
EDWARD BROOKE I knew that if it ever got down to a choice between the Party and our traditional democratic structu...
EDWARD DMYTRYK He that has been bitten by a snake is afraid of a rope.
EDWARD ALBEE Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins.
EDWARD KENNEDY When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on th...
EDWARD BOND All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory ...
EDWARD NORTON The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.
EDWARD GREY If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
EDWARD HOPPER My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely c...
EDWARD WESTON Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.
EDWARD ALBERT I wouldn't have thought that a wrong theory should lead us to understand better the ordinary qua...
EDWARD WITTEN The Portuguese and Galician term 'saudade' suggests a profoundly bittersweet nostalgia.
EDWARD HIRSCH The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.
EDWARD NORTON Once I climbed into a mountain lion's cage and she bounded at me and put her paw on my face, but...
EDWARD HOAGLAND Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites,Hell threatens.
EDWARD YOUNG Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
EDWARD YOUNG At thirty, man suspects himself a fool;Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.
EDWARD YOUNG All men think all men mortal but themselves.
EDWARD YOUNG There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, 'It is just as I feared! -
Two Owls and a Hen, EDWARD LEAR Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominat...
EDWARD HALL How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
EDWARD YOUNG Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone a...
EDWARD HOAGLAND Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.
EDWARD COKE Virtue alone has majesty in death.
EDWARD YOUNG Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed:Who does the best his circumstance allowsDoes well, acts nobly...
EDWARD YOUNG Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
EDWARD YOUNG The man of wisdom is the man of years.
EDWARD YOUNG Early, bright, transient, chaste, as morning dew She sparkled, was exhal'd, and went to heaven.
EDWARD YOUNG Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes; They love a train, they tread each other's heel.
EDWARD YOUNG One to destroy is murder by the law, And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; To murder thousa...
EDWARD YOUNG Think nought a trifle, though it small appear; Small sands the mountain, moments make the year, ...
EDWARD YOUNG To me, lighting really sets the mood for a room. A 40 watt bulb in a cheap lamp is the same as a 40 ...
EDWARD WALKER As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and str...
EDWARD WITTEN I feel a buzzing at the base of my neck. It's like I'm on eternal 'vibrate' in case ...
JOHN EDWARD The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back ...
EDWARD FITZGERALD Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called...
EDWARD KENNEDY It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priori...
EDWARD KENNEDY The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and...
EDWARD BACH The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as...
EDWARD GIBBON The funny thing is, when you look at photos of Tuvia Bielski, he was fair, blue-eyed, and could pass...
EDWARD ZWICK Like everyone, I was a kid who played chess when I was young. And I am admittedly old enough to have...
EDWARD ZWICK It's a fact the whole world knows; That Pobbles are happier without their toes.
EDWARD LEAR What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
EDWARD LANGLEY We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick......
EDWARD HEATH I come like Water, and like Wind I go.
EDWARD FITZGERALD I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villa...
EDWARD ZWICK The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art,Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.
EDWARD YOUNG A man of pleasure is a man of pains.
EDWARD YOUNG When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.
EDWARD YOUNG My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.
EDWARD GIBBON Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
EDWARD GIBBON Can wealth give happiness? look round and see What gay distress! what splendid misery! Whate...
EDWARD YOUNG I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
EDWARD MOORE To leave a sting within a brother's heart.
EDWARD YOUNG What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousan...
EDWARD ABBEY Many are called but few are chosen. There are sayings of Christ which suggest that the Church he cam...
EDWARD NORMAN Much learning shows how little mortals know: Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy.
EDWARD YOUNG And love is love, in beggars and in kings.
EDWARD DYER The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expressi...
EDWARD ABBEY I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.
EDWARD RICKENBACKER You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared ...
EDWARD FLAHERTY God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defe...
EDWARD EVERETT For her own breakfast she 'll project a scheme,Nor take her tea without a stratagem.
EDWARD YOUNG The children are innocent until proven guilty. For their sake, not ours, we must soldier on, muddlin...
EDWARD ABBEY كلما ازداد تعدي أوروبا على الشرق في القرن التاسع عشر از...
EDWARD SAID You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there h...
EDWARD SAID In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its orig...
EDWARD EVERETT A God all mercy is a God unjust.
EDWARD YOUNG Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind thei...
EDWARD VARESE It was scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the ...
EDWARD GIBBON Can't I another's face commend, Or to her virtues be a friend, But instantly your forehead lou...
EDWARD MOORE The difference between psychedelia and digitalia ages will seem like a smooth blending in years to c...
EDWARD RUSCHA I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyac...
EDWARD FITZGERALD Those who build beneath the stars build too low.
EDWARD YOUNG A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
EDWARD GIBBON The man that makes a character, makes foes.
EDWARD YOUNG The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, ...
EDWARD RICKENBACKER Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
EDWARD RICKENBACKER The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is th...
EDWARD GIBBON It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to d...
EDWARD GIBBON True the greater part of the Irish people was close to starvation. The numbers of weakened people dy...
EDWARD RUTHERFURD Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
EDWARD DOWDEN To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.
EDWARD WEEKS Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
EDWARD YOUNG Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.
EDWARD YOUNG When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious thin...
EDWARD COCKER Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned. Analyze it carefully. Then put what you...
EDWARD COCKER The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
EDWARD KOCH If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
EDWARD KOCH You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag.
EDWARD KOCH Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity:...
EDWARD ABBEY For there is a cloud on my horizon. A small dark cloud no bigger than my hand. Its name is Progress.
EDWARD ABBEY Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube. There are some things one would rather ha...
EDWARD ABBEY Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination
EDWARD ABBEY That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of i...
EDWARD ABBEY High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple a...
EDWARD ABBEY The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.
EDWARD ABBEY England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, te...
EDWARD ABBEY Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The i...
EDWARD BELLAMY For just a little while, in all our lives, we're granted brief glimpses at the way things really ope...
EDWARD MORRIS I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to ...
EDWARD ABBEY And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon.
EDWARD LEAR When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unk...
EDWARD TELLER Frankly, I don't mind not being president. I just mind that someone else is.
EDWARD KENNEDY A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
EDWARD ABBEY One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a ...
EDWARD ABBEY The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.
EDWARD GIBBON Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long ...
EDWARD HOAGLAND One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imag...
EDWARD DAHLBERG The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll wit...
EDWARD DAHLBERG Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings.
EDWARD GARDNER Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.
EDWARD DAHLBERG There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the colde...
EDWARD DAHLBERG Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.
EDWARD FAIRFAX The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
EDWARD WINDSOR There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himse...
EDWARD STEICHEN Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and ski...
EDWARD STEICHEN The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a...
EDWARD STEICHEN Photography suits the temper of this age -- of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for o...
EDWARD WESTON Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.
EDWARD EGGLESTON The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
EDWARD THOMAS Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and ...
EDWARD DAHLBERG Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.
EDWARD GIBBON We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even w...
EDWARD DAHLBERG Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommenda...
EDWARD GIBBON Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of comp...
EDWARD GIBBON Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive mu...
EDWARD HENNESSY The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.
EDWARD GIBBON Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga -- stylized because even the most acute of the...
EDWARD HOAGLAND Animals used to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as they do still, but, more intr...
EDWARD HOAGLAND There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
EDWARD DAHLBERG The worst of all diseases is a nervous ability.
EDWARD DYSON