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Edward Tufte

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SHARON CALVIN A balanced budget takes us in the right direction. Clearly, adding billions and trillions of dollars...
TIM JOHNSON I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON Information design has been around since the 1970s. Pioneers like Yale University design guru Edward...
DAVID MCCANDLESS We don't want to get into protracted discussions on who takes what steps first and how we calibrate ...
CHRISTOPHER HILL Each year local media becomes more responsible and more objective. Corruption is one public policy i...
ADAM SITKOFF We're well versed in what collaboration takes. It has not been part of this process. Collaboration i...
DAVID PALMER When we can no longer change a situation, its the time to changed our self.
GLENDA RADORES What we are offering to the game industry is the ability to make physics and interactivity reach the...
MANJU HEGDE Who you know only gets you in the door; what you know gets you the keys to the house.
GINA GREENLEE We are making adjustments in the first quarter of this year because of changes in our military suppo...
DEREK MCLUCKEY With my limited understanding what I think happened was that God decided to play a fun game. He crea...
KATE MCGAHAN In the '60s this place was changing. In the '70s it was changing. In the '80s it was changing. There...
PRITAM SINGH It's a big, big advantage because understanding what changes we might make takes time and it tak...
VALENTINO ROSSI If we are going to conduct espionage in the future, we are going to have to make some changes in the...
MICHAEL HAYDEN It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN Gratitude is one of the most powerful human emotions. Once expressed, it changes attitude, brightens...
GERMANY KENT The secret of a successful newspaper is to take one story each day and bang the hell out of it. Give...
HERBERT BAYARD SWOPE Hundreds of fundraising projects are organized each year through our chapters, such as the Make-A-Wi...
BRENT GOODRICH Loving someone who never loved you, is like remembering a face you never saw.
No matter how har...
RATISH EDWARDS There will be things I won't tell you ever ,
Then there will be things that you won't ever lis...
RATISH EDWARDS I wish I could see you some day,
Just for a moment, just see you,

I wish I could h...
RATISH EDWARDS That's part of the internal party discussions.
ANDY PALMER Innovate, integrate, innovate, integrate, that's the way the industry works, ... Graphics was a stan...
CRAIG BARRETT Over the last year, the foundation has had many discussions about what to do with that Cedarville la...
DENIS HANKS As we aggressively drive improved visual computing capabilities to the personal computer, graphics s...
CRAIG BARRETT For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria...
RICHARD DAWKINS I appropriate what is already mine, for once a thing is published it becomes public property
OSCAR WILDE The flattering part of it is it seems like every year it takes place. That means our program is real...
MIKE ANDERSON Each year it's part of our Christmas tradition.
DALENE BROCK Blender 3D has caused quite a stir in the computer graphics world. More than 1.8 million users downl...
EARLY EHLINGER We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA It never hurts to review the financial part of it. But right in the middle of hurricane season is re...
COMMISSIONER GARY BARTELL What love is it, then, that has no need of words to call us? In whose image are we made, to take suc...
CHRISTIAN BOBIN How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL 2. Overcommitment and time pressure are the greatest destroyers of marriages. It takes time to devel...
JAMES C. DOBSON They are seeing examples of what it takes to be good citizens, and what leaders are doing to try to ...
TOM WELCH The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourse...
AMELIA BARR Life is full of blips and tweaks. Blips are what happens in our lives. Tweaks are the changes we mak...
LORRIN L. LEE Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD Advertisers could care less about the media as long as it works. They have a budget and they want to...
CHUCK RICHARD There is no dynasty. Each season is unique to itself because the cast of characters changes. Seniors...
BILL MANDIGO The athletic department for the most part stands on its own. The parents and the fundraisers are a b...
ALAN ROSS Wal-Mart's proposed changes are clearly designed to try and salvage a faltering public image, rather...
PAUL BLANK This is the time of year finances are on people's mind. And this is the time to think about that and...
KATHY ANDERSON We must reiterate that the Principles are published as a discussion document and as an aide for clie...
HUGH WILLIAMS We are excited about the upcoming essay contest for Henderson County's third and seventh graders. Ea...
BARBARA HUGHES We at Quad/Graphics continue to believe in the power of print. Therefore, it was important for Quad/...
JOEL QUADRACCI There is no greater glory than to die for love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ There will be no changes to fishing seasons in the lower tributaries from last year. There will be i...
JOE HYMER I seen a lot of changes. You got to make changes. I even make changes in my blues.
DAVID EDWARDS All four of those guys are back from last year's team, and that extra year of experience really has ...
CHARLES PATTILLO German is more familiar now since I live part of the year in Rome and part in the German part of Swi...
CECILIA BARTOLI Biology is a software process. Our bodies are made up of trillions of cells, each governed by this p...
RAY KURZWEIL A publicly quoted company simply means,the public makes the money for the company & also takes part ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) My brain cells are dying in their trillions.
TOM STOPPARD The politicians in Washington are spending trillions of dollars of our money. When are Americans goi...
JOE WURZELBACHER We certainly have noticed significant changes. As these kids get out in the public forums they have ...
BEVERLY HOWARD There's something about a place you've been with someone you love. It takes on a meaning in your min...
CASSANDRA CLARE Last year I don't think she was as mobile or as strong as she is now. It took her a part of last sea...
GLENN CROOKS Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It is also perhaps fitting that here in Northern Ireland a good part of our discussions focused on t...
TONY BLAIR Any death is stupid from the viewpoint of whoever is undergoing it, Adam One used to say, because no...
MARGARET ATWOOD We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. So, everyone see the world in different...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA Life in part is what you make of it... in parting it is what it makes out of you.
JANICE MARKOWITZ If changes need to be made at the Department of Public Safety, Gov. Rell is confident that Commissio...
ADAM LIEGEOT There are discussions going on concerning our proposal submitted on June 14. Part of our proposal is...
GARY SHEFFER Our seniors were good leaders. Those wrestlers showed what it takes to get 11 kids into the finals. ...
BILL PLEIN This is the paradox of public space: even if everyone knows an unpleasant fact, saying it in public ...
SLAVOJ ŽIžEK We are continuing to work with Apple on a possible next version of Virtual PC. We still don't have a...
AMANDA LEFEBVRE It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percen...
LAINI TAYLOR Sometimes we learn the lessons of life through pain, melancholy and the vicissitude of life and some...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Sometimes we learn the lessons of life through pain, melancholy and the vicissitude of life and some...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH These girls know what it takes. We had a chance to play here last year in the same kind of environme...
HUGH GODSEY Let it not be published until the ninth year.
HORACE These are huge changes that have not been comprehended by most of the U.S. public.
RICHARD LUGAR Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I think the understanding of the role of markets has really helped advance the values of entrepreneu...
LARS PETER HANSEN There's a dialog taking place between the Premier League and the European Commission. We're not a pa...
ROBERT FRASER It is the goal of state and the federal education agencies that 100 percent of all students will be ...
DON ROBERTS The best part of your story is when it changes.
BELLA BLOOM One could run these automata for trillions or even trillions of trillions of iterations, and the ima...
RAY KURZWEIL Something did happen, and I really don't feel proud of it.
DEYTH BANGER It takes a lot of help - nature, friends, family, craftsmen - for me to make what I make.
DAN COLEN We are really working on the perfecting part of the sport. Sometimes it takes months to fine-tune.
BILL RYDEN This all requires further agreements, so in that sense these are preliminary discussions. But it see...
POPE BENEDICT XVI We're now at that point where the graphics are good enough to preserve the illusion and make you fee...
J ALLARD Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH As much as I hate his movies, Oliver Stone has an aspiration I admire, and that is that he wants his...
TONY KUSHNER Sometimes the changes are great, sometimes they're not. I don't know what changes will be made but t...
ALAN GELL It's certainly an option. At this point it's not part of the discussions.
BRAD DAYSPRING Each plow has about 40 to 60 lane miles to cover, so it takes about 2 hours to make each run.
STEVE HAAG They seem to have forgotten that, and are back saying the only purpose of P2P networks is for illega...
JOHN PERRY BARLOW The graphics are very good, better than a lot of simulators. The avionics is what the key is. They'r...
DAVE KINNEY When a company is facing a problem, it always takes a stance and takes a decision, but at the same t...
CARLOS GHOSN That is part of the feedback loop that is critical for use to evaluate and recommend changes in devi...
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EDWARD R. TUFTE Above all else show the data.
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EDWARD Some follow ideas. Others think of them.
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EDWARD HOPPER The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.
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EDWARD LEAR The simple act of caring is heroic.
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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.
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EDWARD NORTON The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.
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EDWARD WESTON Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.
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EDWARD WITTEN The Portuguese and Galician term 'saudade' suggests a profoundly bittersweet nostalgia.
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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,
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EDWARD HALL How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
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EDWARD HOAGLAND Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.
EDWARD COKE Virtue alone has majesty in death.
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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...
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EDWARD WALKER As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and str...
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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.
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EDWARD YOUNG I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
EDWARD MOORE To leave a sting within a brother's heart.
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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.
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EDWARD ABBEY I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.
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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.
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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.
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EDWARD RICKENBACKER Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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