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I hope you live without the need to dominate, and without the need to be dominated. I hope you are never victims, but I hope you have no power over other people. And when you fail, and are defeated, and in pain, and in the dark, then I hope you will remember that darkness is your country, where you live, where no wars are fought and no wars are won, but where the future is.
American Rhetoric: Ursula K. Le Guin - A Left-Handed Commencement Address
americanrhetoric.com
The sign (positive or negative) on the coefficient for an independent variable tells us the direction of its association with the dependent variable (the outcome we are trying to explain). In the simple case above, the coefficient on height is positive. Taller people tend to weigh more.
Naked Statistics Stripping the Dread From the Data
Wheelan, Charles
My people were right, and I was wrong, in this: We cannot come to you. You will not let us. You do not believe in change, in chance, in evolution. You would destroy us rather than admit our reality, rather than admit that there is hope! We cannot come to you. We can only wait for you to come to us.”
The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin
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