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 # Quotable Quote
 
-*"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."* 
+*"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."*
 **Bruce Lee**
 
 # Statistics:
- - 36,165 quotes with 
- - 878,450 words from
- - 2,297 people
+ - 39,269 quotes with
+ - 1,015,338 words from
+ - 3,112 people
 
 # Contribute
 - Feel free to fork it, add more quotes and do a pull merge request
@@ -17,7 +17,5 @@ A Corpus of Quotes.
 - Please ensure that authors are in the first column, quotes in the second, separated by a tab
 - Please update the statistics after you've added more quotes, do:
  - `wc -l author-quote.txt` to get no. of quotes
- - `cut -f1 author-quote.txt | sort | uniq | wc -l` to get no. of authors 
- - `wc -c author-quote.txt` to get no. of words
-
-
+ - `cut -f1 author-quote.txt | sort | uniq | wc -l` to get no. of authors
+ - `wc -w author-quote.txt` to get no. of words