“ There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
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“ The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. ”
- Rita Mae Brown- Copy
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“ Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions. ”
- Evan Esar- Copy
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“ He used statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts; for support rather than illumination. ”
- Andrew Lang- Copy
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“ Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. ”
- Aaron Levenstein- Copy
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“ Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics. ”
- Edward Dahlberg- Copy
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“ Either it's going to be a great dunk or a great block,... I think statistics work in my favor. I don't like getting dunked on. ”
- Alonzo Mourning- Copy
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“ There are two kinds of liberalism. A liberalism which is always, subterraneously authoritative and paternalistic, on the side of one's good conscience. And then there is a liberalism which is more ethical than political; one would have to find another name for this… ”
- Roland Barthes- Copy
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“ I could prove God statistically. Take the human body alone-the chances that all the functions of an individual would just happen is a statistical monstrosity. ”
- George Gallup- Copy
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“ Like other occult techniques of divination, the statistical method has a private jargon deliberately contrived to obscure its methods from non-practitioners. ”
- G. O. Ashley- Copy
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“ I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand. ”
- Ronald Reagan- Copy
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“ Statistically the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you would think the mere possibility of existence would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise. ”
- Lewis Thomas- Copy
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“ There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up, and the kind you make up. ”
- Rex Stout- Copy
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“ I could prove God statistically. Take the human body alone - the chances that all the functions of an individual would just happen is a statistical monstrosity. ”
- George Gallup- Copy
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“ There are two kinds of statistics: the kind you look up and the kind you make up. ”
- Rex Stout- Copy
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“ When you look at the world in a narrow way, how narrow it seems! When you look at it in a mean way, how mean it is! When you look at it selfishly, how selfish it is! But when you look at it in a broad, generous, friendly spirit, what wonderful people you find in it. ”
- Horace Rutledge- Copy
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“ If you look at the big picture, I think the whole THG, designer drug scandal is a good thing for the sport,... Every time someone gets caught I see that as a positive, because it is an effort to clean up the sport. We really have to look at drug use in sports, whether track and field or any other sport, just like you would look at crime in society… ”
- Michael Johnson- Copy
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“ And if California slides into the ocean, as the mystics and statistics say it will, I predict this hotel will be standing until I've paid my bill. ”
- Warren Zevon- Copy
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“ A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. ”
- Joseph Stalin- Copy
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“ Statistics are like a drunk with a lampost: used more for support than illumination. ”
- Sir Winston Churchill- Copy
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“ According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless. ”
- Ashleigh Brilliant- Copy
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