“ USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population. ”
- David Letterman- Copy
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“ Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits that under analysis some of them won't stand up either. ”
- Evan Esar- 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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“ A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic. ”
- Joseph Stalin- Copy
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“ There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- 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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“ Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. ”
- Aaron Levenstein- 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: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions. ”
- Evan Esar- Copy
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“ A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic. ”
- Joseph Stalin- Copy
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“ Before a cure is found we will all have been affected one way or another. ”
- Unknown- 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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“ 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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“ 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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“ There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up, and the kind you make up. ”
- Rex Stout- 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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“ 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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“ Often statistics are used as a drunken man uses lamp posts... for support rather than illumination. ”
- Unknown- 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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“ 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 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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“ 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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