Proportion Confidence Interval

Famous quotes containing the words proportion, confidence and/or interval:

“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Men are often so foolish as to boast and value themselves upon their passions, even those that are most vicious. But envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that no one every ever had the confidence to own it.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.”
—John Updike (b. 1932)