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You and I are forever at the mercy of the census-taker and the census-maker. That impertinent fellow who goes from house to house is one of the real masters of the statistical situation. The other is the man who organizes the results.
Walter Lippmann
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Eat good dinners and drink good wine read good novels if you have the leisure and see good plays fall in love, if there is no reason why you should not fall in love but do not pore over influenza statistics.
Jerome K. Jerome
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Statistics, one may hope, will improve gradually, and become good for something. Meanwhile, it is to be feared the crabbed satirist was partly right, as things go: A judicious man, says he, looks at Statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted on him.
Thomas Carlyle
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A good stack of examples, as large as possible, is indispensable for a thorough understanding of any concept,and when I want to learn something new, I make it my first job to build one.
Paul Halmos
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A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.
Thomas Carlyle
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Statistics are no substitute for judgment.
Henry Clay
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It's not what happened but how it is told.
Philip K. Dick
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Refuse the council of despair! Don't live by the statistics, live according to the prophetic word!
Lou Engle
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Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes-none knows whence-and cannot explain itself.
Mark Twain
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It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.
Alan Dean Foster
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
Gustave Flaubert
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Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write!
H. G. Wells
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The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important.
William Ralph Inge
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She goes in with a prejudice and comes out with a statistic.
Ellen Goodman
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We know nothing until intuition agrees.
Richard Bach
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Most writers on the subject seem to agree that the typical working mathematician is a Platonist on weekdays and a formalist on Sundays.
Philip J. Davis
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I think if you look at the statistics and you deal with fake media - and fake media and distorted media is a continuum - the vast majority of the population says, I don't know what to believe. There are no checks and balances in quality control.
Ray Dalio
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It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
George Bernard Shaw
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Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.
George Bernard Shaw
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The empiric easily degenerates into the quack. He does not know where his knowledge begins or leaves off, and so when he gets beyond routine conditions he begins to pretend-to make claims for which there is no justification, and to trust to luck and to ability to impose upon others-to bluff.
John Dewey
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I never liked the idea of doing what a machine says. I hate having to salute something built in a factory.
Philip K. Dick
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In terms of merit, sports has mathematical statistics. That's how you know who the best player is.
Norm MacDonald
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Despite the dubious statistics … democracy is a thing of value for which we should be fighting.
Rory Stewart
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The lock-step approach of algebra, geometry, and then more algebra (but rarely any statistics) is still dominant in U. S. schools, but hardly anywhere else. This fragmented approach yields effective mathematics education not for the many but for the few primarily those who are independently motivated and who will learn under any conditions.
Lynn Steen
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