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“As a reporter you tend to seek coherence from your subject or your source - it all needs to add up and make sense. In truth, in reality, there's often a great deal of murkiness and muddiness, confusion and contradiction.”

Needs Reality Deals Subjects Source Add Confusion Make Sense Contradiction Reporters Coherence

Author:Amy Waldman

“But as no two (theoreticians) agree on this (skin friction) or any other subject, some not agreeing today with what they wrote a year ago, I think we might put down all their results, add them together, and then divide by the number of mathematicians, and thus find the average coefficient of error. (1908)”

Thinking Years Two Might Today Together Science Results Numbers Subjects Years Ago Skins Agree Add Errors Average Divides Mathematician Friction

Author:Hiram Maxim

“All topics, issues, and subjects in 'The Room' add to the depth of the characters in the movie, and they are equally important.”

Important Character Rooms Issues Subjects Add Depth Topics

Author:Tommy Wiseau

“The point is that we are among those who cannot get their mouths around all the little Yeses that add up to tacit acceptance of a world run by crackpot realists and subject to blind drift. And that, you see, is something to which we do belong; we belong to those who are still capable of personally rejecting. Our minds are not yet captive.”

World Mind Littles Stills Running Subjects Acceptance Capable Mouths Blind Add Realist Captives Rejecting Tacit Crackpots

Book:C. Wright Mills: Letters and Autobiographical Writings

Source: C. Wright Mills: Letters and Autobiographical Writings

“I have already expressed my opinion on this subject in treating of rent, and have now only further to add, that rent is a creation of value, as I understand that word, but not a creation of wealth.”

Values Wealth Opinion Subjects Creation Add

Book:The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch

Source: The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch

“No man can be a competent legislator who does not add to an upright intention and a sound judgment a certain degree of knowledge of the subject on which he is to legislate.”

Men Doe Certain Sound Subjects Degrees Judgment Add Intention Legislation Competent Legislators Sound Judgment

Book:The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788

Source: The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788

“Never upstage a man. Don't top his joke, even if you have to bite your tongue to keep from doing it. Never launch loudly into your own opinions on a subject - whether it's petunias or politics. Instead, draw out his ideas to which you can gracefully add your footnotes from time to time.”

Ifs Men Ideas Opinion Subjects Draws Jokes Add Tongue Bites Footnotes Petunias

Author:Arlene Dahl

“I must be allowed to add some explanatory remarks to bring the subject home to reason-to that sluggish reason, which supinely takes opinions on trust, and obstinately supports them to spare itself the labour of thinking.”

Thinking Reason Home Opinion Support Subjects Add Labour Spares Remarks Sluggish

Book:A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

“When I was collecting material for a political gossip column, and someone said something interesting, I would wait for them to add, "and I don't want to read that in your magazine!" In which case I wouldn't use it. But if they didn't remember to say it, I'd nip off to the loo, write the story up, come back and change the subject.”

Ifs Want Writing Said Stories Use Remember Political Waiting Interesting Cases Subjects Materials Add Magazines Gossip Collecting Columns Something Interesting

Author:Simon Hoggart

“If fact were enough, you could take a photo of the subject. Unlike the sensitive observer, however, the camera never selects or comments, never adds or subtracts.”

Ifs Enough Facts Subjects Cameras Add Sensitive Comment Observers

Book:The art of landscape painting

Source: The art of landscape painting