Famous quotes containing the words distribution, estimation, maximum and/or likelihood:
“My topic for Army reunions ... this summer: How to prepare for war in time of peace. Not by fortifications, by navies, or by standing armies. But by policies which will add to the happiness and the comfort of all our people and which will tend to the distribution of intelligence [and] wealth equally among all. Our strength is a contented and intelligent community.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (18221893)
“A higher class, in the estimation and love of this city- building, market-going race of mankind, are the poets, who, from the intellectual kingdom, feed the thought and imagination with ideas and pictures which raise men out of the world of corn and money, and console them for the short-comings of the day, and the meanness of labor and traffic.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanityit had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in ones mind.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)
“What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition?”
—Samuel Richardson (16891761)