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“Do you like my hair?" "What?" She tilted her head to the side, revealing her creamy neck. "Why are you asking that now?" "Do you?" "Yes, very much." "Good. Next time you think of going off on some tangent, think how my nice head of brown hair will be turning gray if you don't stop scaring me." Her lips curled in a genuine smile. She lifted her hand and touched the hair at his temple. "I think I'd like you gray too." He captured her hand in his and kissed the fingertips. "And if I have my way, someday you'll get to find out if you do.”

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“Her statistics were more than a study... For her, Quetelet was the hero as scientist, and the presentation copy of his Physique Sociale is annotated by her on every page. Florence Nightingale believed—and in all the actions of her life acted upon that belief—that the administrator could only be successful if he were guided by statistical knowledge. The legislator—to say nothing of the politician—too often failed for want of this knowledge.”

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Book:The Life, Letters and Labours of Francis Galton (Cambridge Library Collection - Darwin, Evolution and Genetics)
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“Their 108-year wait for another title was the longest championship drought in sports. The last time they did win the World Series, in 1908, occurred in the lifetimes of Mark Twain, Florence Nightingale, Geronimo, Winslow Homer, and Joshua Chamberlain, and in a world when the Ottoman Empire still existed but the 19th Amendment, talking motion pictures, electrified traffic lights, and world wars did not.”

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Book:The Cubs Way: The Zen of Building the Best Team in Baseball and Breaking the Curse
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