We have to ... put more emphasis on the incoming data and the anecdotes we get from the business community and other audiences and try to put together a coherent assessment of the economy.

We cast a wide net. I believe we've got the core of the business community now.

This is a destructive lifestyle, the Bible describes it as sinful. And we can see anecdotes in our own society that it is not a positive lifestyle for those that are in it.

A collection of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions

Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate, are often more impressive and powerful than argument

Hundreds of anecdotes I could relate. It may happen that the pages I am now scribbling over, may hereafter be published.