“A girl’s relationship with her father is the most important male relationship of her life.”
Jenny Han book P.S. I Still Love You
Source: P.S. I Still Love You
Micah Sparks, Chapter 9, p. 132
2000s, Three Weeks with My Brother (2004)
“A girl’s relationship with her father is the most important male relationship of her life.”
Jenny Han book P.S. I Still Love You
Source: P.S. I Still Love You
“The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.”
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
This Is My Story (1937)
“Life's most important questions are, for the most part, nothing but probability problems.”
Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827) French mathematician and astronomer
citation needed
"Les questions les plus importantes de la vie ne sont en effet, pour la plupart, que des problèmes de probabilité."
“A person's relationship with food is one of their most important relationships.”
Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story
Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story
“The most important questions of life… are indeed for the most part only problems of probability.”
Pierre-Simon Laplace book Philosophical Essay on Probabilities
Philosophical Essay on Probabilities (1902)
Context: The most important questions of life... are indeed for the most part only problems of probability. Strictly speaking it may even be said that nearly all our knowledge is problematical; and in the small number of things which we are able to know with certainty, even in the mathematical sciences themselves, the principal means for ascertaining truth—induction and analogy—are based on probabilities.<!--p.1
David Rockefeller (1915–2017) American banker and philanthropist
On courting his wife, as quoted in a review of his Memoirs — "Born to Be Mild" by David Brooks in The New York Times (20 October 2002) http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E03E4D6163AF933A15753C1A9649C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all
John Gray book Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals
The Vices of Morality: The fetish of choice (p. 109-110)
Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals (2002)
Harry Harrison (1925–2012) American science fiction author
This is the radio personality Harry Harrison (born 20 September 1930), quoted in Think Vol. 21, No. 1 (January 1955), and The Book of Positive Quotations (2007) edited by John Cook, Steve Deger, and Leslie Ann Gibson
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