It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

quote by George Bernard Shaw
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Americans pay up to 1000 percent more to fill their prescriptions than consumers in other countries - that is an alarming statistic.

quote by Ken Salazar
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I like to do projects in which you can see statistical results. I am very happy for all these small children, who have been the biggest group of victims of iodine deficiency.

quote by Anatoly Karpov
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In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.

quote by Stephen Leacock
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Just a Statistic

I'm just a statistic
Who's just another number
I need to kill someone
To find myself a doctor

Time's vacuumed my soul
and my conscience is revoked
There's lots of little holes
Where my minds decomposed
And there's scabies in the ceiling
between the cold war hemispheres
while flooding whispers are shrieking
A reproduction of King Lear

There's bars on the dollhouse
Where ship of fools sails
I'm getting looks from a door mouse

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poem by Kevin Patrick
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I take my vote as a salute to the little guy, the one who doesn't hit 500 home runs. I was one of the guys that did all they could to win. I'm proud of my stats, but I don't think I ever got on for.

quote by Joe Morgan
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Two years later, I went to the University of Minnesota from which I was on leave for several years during the war as a member of Statistical Research Group at Columbia University.

quote by George Stigler
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Multi-emotionalized

I'm the one that's suppose to feel,
Everyone's pain.
Including my own.
But less magnified.
I am suppose to pledge my allegiance.
No matter if I am spit and spat upon...
At the expense of my self expression.
On streets where my ancestors more than paid,
For displays of these misgivings.

Misunderstandings...
That I'm expected to internalize,
And make them my own.
To dispense and share,
With those in joyous despair and disillusioned.

'Like the pain that is theirs which is thrown upon me.
With a followup of statistics to compare survival methods.'

Multi-emotionalized,

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poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart.

quote by George A. Romero
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The question really is how do we get Embassy Officers into the minds of the American business community. That is a much more difficult task than understanding a statistical matrix.

quote by Lawrence Eagleburger
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The type of measure used placed constraints on which statistics can be used.

quote by Stanley Smith Stevens
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As a doctor, as a man of science, I can tell you there is no such thing as curses Everything just happens as a question of probability. The statistical likelihood of a specific event.

quote by Andrew Schneider
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If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.

quote by Ernest Rutherford
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Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

quote by Wallace Irwin
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There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.

quote by Rex Stout
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Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word ""census,"" and people fall asleep.

quote by Aaron Sorkin
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Statistics are like a drunk with a lampost: used more for support than illumination.

quote by Winston Churchill
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He uses statistics like a drunk uses lamp-posts, more for support than illumination.

quote by Romano Prodi
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Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.

quote by Vin Scully
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It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

quote by Fletcher Knebel
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