Famous quotes containing the words log, odds and/or ratio:
“The principal saloon was the Howlin Wilderness, an immense log cabin with a log fire always burning in the huge fireplace, where so many fights broke out that the common saying was, We will have a man for breakfast tomorrow.”
—For the State of California, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“A man can seldomvery, very, seldomfight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.”
—Aldous Huxley (18941963)
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