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Paul Brodeur Quotes (1 quote)

“Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped off.”
―Paul Brodeur

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“A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.”
―Charles Lamb

Source/Notes:
Poor Relations. - Last Essays of Elia (1833)

“War!
Some of the invalids break the silence, and say the word again under their breath, reflecting that this is the greatest happening of the age, and perhaps of all ages. Even on the lucid landscape at which they gaze the news casts something like a vague and somber mirage.”
―Henri Barbusse

Source/Notes:
Under Fire (1916)

“I'll go through life either first class or third, but never in second.”
―Noel Coward

“What are little boys made of? Snips and snails and puppy-dog tails, And such are little boys made of.”
―Robert Southey

Source/Notes:
What All the World Is Made Of (ca. 1820)

“Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.”
―Anthony Robbins

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Paul Brodeur

Paul Brodeur

Bio: Paul Brodeur is an investigative science writer and author, whose writings have appeared in The New Yorker, where he began as a staff writer in 1958. He lives in Cape Cod. For nearly two decades he researched and wrote about the health hazards of asbestos.

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