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Our social and economic statistics are telling us what we already know in our hearts: we have created a world that works for only a few. To change this, we must learn to act toward each other and our environment in profoundly different ways.
Vaclav Havel
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I think, traditionally, when the federal government has gathered statistics, it's been done in silos, so every agency really focuses on the statistics that are important to agency.
Valerie Jarrett
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Any effect, constant, theorem or equation named after Professor X was first discovered by Professor Y , for some value of Y not equal to X.
John C. Baez
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Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
Evan Esar
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The most crazed religious fanatic argues in more calm and reasoned tones than liberals responding to statistics on concealed-carry permits.
Ann Coulter
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He is trying to decide which of two daydreams he will inhabit.
Peter Hammill
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
Edmund Burke
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Formatting is no substitute for writing.
Leslie Lamport
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If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we’d be terrified.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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We should not be pushing out figured when the facts are in the opposite direction.
Aneurin Bevan
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You read statistics all the time like, 13 million people are at risk because of the severe drought in East Africa, but I think those kinds of numbers fall on deaf ears - there's so much devastation in the world, that it's a bit overwhelming for people.
Scarlett Johansson
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We [women] have borne and bred and washed and taught, perhaps to the age of six or seven years, the one thousand six hundred and twenty-three million human beings who are, according to statistics, at present in existence, and that ... takes time.
Virginia Woolf
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Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-postsfor support rather than illumination.
Andrew Lang
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Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.'
Aristotle
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For every two degrees the temperature goes up, check-ins at ice cream shops go up by 2%.
Andrew Hogue
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The pessimist is the man who believes things couldn't possibly be worse, to which the optimist replies: 'Oh yes they could!'
Vladimir Bukovsky
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It has been said that figures rule the world. Maybe. But I am sure that figures show us whether it is being ruled well or badly.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Statistics may be defined as a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty.
W. Allen Wallis
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Calculus is the most powerful weapon of thought yet devised by the wit of man.
Wallace B. Smith
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And with the rape, I was showing why the rape statistics are exaggerated, and saying that date rape was much more complex than the way feminists had portrayed it, as men oppressing women.
Warren Farrell
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Gethin Jenkins is one of the best loose-head props in the world. He hits up to 40 rucks a game, makes at least 10 carries and even more tackles. Those are amazing statistics for a prop and he is a very intelligent rugby player.
Warren Gatland
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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
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Americans pay up to 1,000 percent more to fill their prescriptions than consumers in other countries - that is an alarming statistic.
Ken Salazar
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I cannot resist making the observation that some people use statistics as a drunk uses a lamppost - more to lean on than for illumination.
Alfred E. Perlman
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