In modern industrial society only minimal effort is necessary to satisfy one's physical needs.
We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way.
If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
I have the same friends and the same bad habits.
If you have reason to think that yesterday's forecast went wrong, there is no glory in sticking to it.
I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.
I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.
With every day that goes by, there will be further reductions on what's left of the season
Membership is the church's corporate endorsement of a person's salvation.
Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.
The position of the hysterical subject is that he or she always guesses what is behind the curtain, that is why such a subject usually ends up [. . . ] giving up on love.