Teody Buenaflor Quotes & Sayings

The aim ... is to provide a clear and rigorous basis for determining when a causal ordering can be said to hold between two variables or groups of variables in a model ... The concepts refer to a model-a system of equations-and not to the 'real' world the model purports to describe. — Herbert Simon

Even as my father grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, signs told him: 'No Irish Need Apply.' — Robert Kennedy

A growing church sees that the work of the ministry should be done by all — Neil T. Anderson

For the first time, I notice the lax skin at Mrs. Nightwing's jaw, the fine down that lies upon her cheek like the imprint of a childe's hand, and I wonder what it must be like watching yourself soften under the years, unable to stop it. what it's like measuring your days in perfecting girls' curtsies and drinking nightly glasses of sherry, trying to keep up with the world as it pulls you spinning into the furure, knowing you are always one step behind it. — Libba Bray

How much finer things are in composition than alone. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I was a young girl salmon fishing with my father in the Straits of Juan de Fuca in Washington State I used to lean out over the water and try to look past my own face, past the reflection of the boat, past the sun and darkness, down to where the fish were surely swimming. I made up charm songs and word-hopes to tempt the fish, to cause them to mean biting my hook. I believed they would do it if I asked them well and patiently and with the right hope. I am writing my poems like this. I have used the fabric and the people of my life as the bait. — Tess Gallagher

You don't have to explain yourself. Let your weakness be yours. Let your strength be everybody's. You understand the principle? — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

...I would much rather my kids leave my class with the strength of character and courage to fight racism when they find it, than have memorized some facts about the Civil Rights Act of 1964. I'm not saying you can't have both, I'm just pointing out that only one of those things will be measured on the test - and it isn't the most important one. — Dave Burgess

Five-Year," a term given to cash minted before 2023. That was the last year cash was produced without embedded chips that could trace every use of the currency as if it was a debit or credit card. — Gary A. Ballard

The grace of God is a wind which is always blowing. — Ramakrishna

Generally, the president's power and capital is used to close a deal and not always to negotiate bit by bit. — Leon Charney

When the Saracens came to attack him, they threw Greek fire onto the barrier he had made; and the fire caught easily, And you should know that the Turks did not wait for the fire to burn itself out, but rushed upon the Templars among the scorching flames. — Jean De Joinville

The American press is, and always has been, a booster press, its editorial pages characteristically advancing the same arguments as the paid advertising copy. — Lewis H. Lapham