Lillian Gilbreth (1878–1972) American psychologist and industrial engineer
Source: Psychology of management, 1914, p. 1
“Aggressive Fancy working spells
Upon a mind o’erwrought.”
Pt. I, sc. vi, Napoleon
The Dynasts (1904–1908)
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Upon a mind o’erwrought." by Thomas Hardy?
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Because it is not fear'd.
“Of course, this is a heuristic, which is a fancy way of saying that it doesn't work.”
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“And a proverb haunts my mind
As a spell is cast,
"The mill cannot grind
With the water that is past."”
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Poem: Lesson of the Water-Mill.
Kate DiCamillo book The Tale of Despereaux
Source: The Tale of Despereaux (2004)
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“It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.”
Andrew Jackson (1767–1845) American general and politician, 7th president of the United States
Sometimes reported as having been a retort to statements of his political rival, John Quincy Adams, who had boycotted Harvard University's awarding of a Doctorate of Laws degree to Jackson in 1833, declaring "I would not be present to witness her [Harvard's] disgrace in conferring her highest literary honors on a barbarian who could not write a sentence of grammar and could hardly spell his own name." Quoted in News Reporting and Writing 4th edition (1987) by M. Mencher.<br>Unsourced variant: Never trust a man who has only one way to spell a word. <br class="br"> Likely misattributed http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/06/25/spelling/
“I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.”
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Ronald Fisher (1890–1962) English statistician, evolutionary biologist, geneticist, and eugenicist
Presidential Address to the First Indian Statistical Congress, 1938. Sankhya 4, 14-17.
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