Refereed Data Quotes

#1. France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws.

Joachim Du Bellay

#2. Education is among the most important problems we face because it's the ultimate 'gateway' problem. That is, it drives virtually every global problem that we face as a species. But there's a flip-side: if we can fix education, then we'll dramatically improve the other problems, too.

Jose Ferreira

#3. Remember that a single mom is just like any other mom and that our number one priority is till our kids. Any parent does whatever it takes for their kids and a single mother is no different.

Paula Miranda

#4. But we will trust you nonetheless. You are bitter, and bitterness is a sign of concern. I trust that.

Stephen R. Donaldson

#5. I don't see myself as an icon, because I just wear whatever I want to wear.

Britney Spears

#6. I don't really know where I got my artists idea. The scraps of what I remember do not explain to me where it came from. I only know that by this time it was definitely settled in my mind.

Georgia O'Keeffe

#7. It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future.

Gregory Bateson

#8. I feel like I've been blessed with some athletic ability and I'd like to take advantage of it.

Matt Holliday

#9. If we must withhold all ribbing in the name of protecting everyone's feelings, then we truly are a toothless society. We will reach what I call the lowest common denominator of butthurt.

George Takei

#10. Attachment is the source of pain, but detachment is the source of joy.

Debasish Mridha

#11. There is always the poet, the lunatic, the lover; there is always the religious man who is a queer mixture of the three.

Frederick Buechner

#12. The significance of life is living.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#13. Death is a poison parsley on a dessert wine.

Chirag Tulsiani