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Evan Esar
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Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
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Mark Twain
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I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics.
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Heinrich Heine
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You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
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Jorge Luis Borges
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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Mark Twain
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Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
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Stanley Marcus
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Consumers are statistics. Customers are people.
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Andrew Lang
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He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts -- for support rather than for illumination.
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Wallace Irwin
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Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.
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Aaron Levenstein
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Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
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Evan Esar
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Statistics The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
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Evan Esar
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Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
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Jerry Seinfeld
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The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four persons is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they are okay, then it's you.
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Rita Mae Brown
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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.
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Evan Esar
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Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
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Mason Cooley
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Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.
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Mark Twain
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There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.
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Benjamin Disraeli
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There are three kinds of lies lies, damned lies, and statistics.
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Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
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I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic.
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Umberto Eco
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Often attributed to Mark Twain; Quoted in Mark Twain, Autobiography, ch. 29, (1924), his exact words were: ???The remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: ???There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics???.???
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97.3% Of all statistics are made up.
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90% of all statistics are made up
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Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
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Smoking is a leading cause of statistics.
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43% of all statistics are totally worthless !!!
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42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.
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It is now beyond any doubt that cigarettes are the biggest cause of statistics.
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Statistics are like a drunk with a lampost: used more for support than illumination.
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Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.
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"I will match his command style with your statistics anytime" - Picard
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"Statistics - figures used as arguments." - Leonard Louis Levinson
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I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone
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Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. (Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.)
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"Statistics are for losers." - Scotty Bowman
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The government (is) extremely fond of amassing great quantities of statistics. These are raised to the nth degree, the cube roots are extracted, and the results are arranged into elaborate and impressive displays. What must be kept ever in mind, however,
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Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than on all other days of the year put together. This proves, by the numbers left in stock, that one Fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so.
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"There are lies, damn lies and statistics." -- Samuel Clemens
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"There's lies, damn lies and statistics." Mark Twain
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There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
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