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Statistics vary, but in less than seven years there won't be a single cell left in any of our bodies that's the same as it is today. This means that any human being who 'wants' to change is like a mountain river wanting to reach the valley floor. It's a done deal that's what mountain rivers do, and 'changing' should be our first nature.
Guy Finley
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God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!
William Blake
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Danny and I wrote 10 songs in seven days, which I thought might be close to the record until you probably look at some of the Beatles statistics.
Gerald Caiafa
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Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because some people like them. It's the same with baseball statistics.
Bill James
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Statistics are about as interesting as first base coaches.
Jim Bouton
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Do not trust any statistics you did not fake yourself.
Winston Churchill
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It is commonly believed that anyone who tabulates numbers is a statistician. This is like believing that anyone who owns a scalpel is a surgeon.
Robert Hooke
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When babies listen, what they're doing is taking statistics on the language that they hear.
Patricia K. Kuhl
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If arithmetic overflow is a fatal error, some fascist pig with a read-only mind is trying to enforce machine independence.
Bill Gosper
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Once you can reproduce a phenomenon, you are well on the way to understanding it.
Arthur C. Clarke
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Man is a tool-making animal
Benjamin Franklin
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When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Statistics is the first of the inexact sciences.
Edmond de Goncourt
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I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.
George Canning
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We are just statistics, born to consume resources.
Horace
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Statistics always remind me of fellow who drowned in a river where the average depth was only three feet.
Woody Hayes
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Economics in college was very poor I was not very impressed with it. I actually wanted to study statistics. I discovered mathematical statistics as an undergraduate and was fascinated with it.
Kenneth Arrow
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No matter what the statistics say there is always a way.
Bernie Siegel
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I see it, but I don't believe it.
Richard Dedekind
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What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?
Thomas Carlyle
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Isolated, so-called pretty theorems have even less value in the eyes of a modern mathematician than the discovery of a new pretty flower has to the scientific botanist, though the layman finds in these the chief charm of the respective sciences.
Hermann Hankel
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Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you should be perfectly comfortable.
Bobby Bragan
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Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.
Frank Herbert
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As I look back on it now, it's obvious that studying history and philosophy was much better preparation for the stock market than, say, studying statistics.
Peter Lynch
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