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If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as there is enough of them.

Lewis Carroll Topic: Statistics

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Benjamin Disraeli Topic: Statistics

Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

Fletcher Knebel Topic: Statistics

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.

Rita Mae Brown Topic: Statistics

Statistics are like lampposts: they are good to lean on, but they don't shed much light.

Storm P Topic: Statistics

Like other occult techniques of divination, the statistical method has a private jargon deliberately contrived to obscure its methods from non-practitioners.

G O Ashley Topic: Statistics

Round numbers are always false.

Samuel Johnson Topic: Statistics

There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up, and the kind you make up.

Rex Stout Topic: Statistics

Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.

Robert Boynton Topic: Statistics

Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.

George Gallup Topic: Statistics

Like other occult techniques of divination, the statistical method has a private jargon deliberately contrived to obscure its methods from non-practitioners.

G O Ashley Topic: Statistics

Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

Fletcher Knebel Topic: Statistics

One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....

Rita Mae Brown Topic: Statistics

I could prove God statistically.

Aaron Levenstein Topic: Statistics

The order of the world is always right -- such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin.

Jean Baudrillard Topic: Statistics

A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.

Joseph Stalin Topic: Statistics

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into thereoms.

Paul Erdos Topic: Statistics

If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

Laurence Peter Topic: Statistics

A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.

Mae West Topic: Statistics

Before a cure is found we will all have been affected one way or another.

Unknown Topic: Statistics

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