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• The past has revealed to me the structure of the future.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Past, Structure

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• In the realm of ideas, of mental objects, those ideas whose properties are reproducible are called mathematical objects, and the study of mental objects with reproducible properties is called mathematics.

  Philip J. Davis

  Ideas, Study, Mathematics

  Philip J. Davis, Reuben Hersh, Elena Anne Marchisotto (1995). “The Mathematical Experience: Study Edition”, p.441, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Laws, it is said, are for the protection of the people. It's unfortunate that there are no statistics on the number of lives that are clobbered yearly as a result of laws: outmoded laws; laws that found their way onto the books as a result of ignorance, hysteria or political haymaking; antilife laws; biased laws; laws that pretend that reality is fixed and nature is definable; laws that deny people the right to refuse protection. A survey such as that could keep a dozen dull sociologists out of mischief for months.

  Tom Robbins

  Book, Ignorance, Reality

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• They can print statistics and count the populations in hundreds of thousands, but to each man a city consists of no more than a few streets, a few houses, a few people. Remove those few and a city exists no longer except as a pain in the memory, like a pain of an amputated leg no longer there.

  Graham Greene

  Pain, Memories, Men

  Graham Greene (1970). “The Collected Edition: Our man in Havana”

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• Once you can reproduce a phenomenon, you are well on the way to understanding it.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Understanding, Way, Wells

  Arthur C. Clarke (2011). “Voices from the Sky”, p.46, Hachette UK

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• A thing is obvious mathematically after you see it.

  Robert Daniel Carmichael

  Math, Obvious, Mathematics

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• Years ago a statistician might have claimed that statistics deals with the processing of data. . . to-days statistician will be more likely to say that statistics is concerned with decision making in the face of uncertainty.

  Herman Chernoff

  Years, Data, Decision

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• I know there are some polls out there saying this man has a 32% approval rating. But guys like us, we don't pay attention to the polls. We know that polls are just a collection of statistics that reflect what people are thinking in reality. And reality has a well-known liberal bias.

  Stephen Colbert

  Reality, Men, Thinking

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• In real life there is no such person as the average man.

  Aldous Huxley

  Real, Men, Average

  "Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948".

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• I don't let my mouth say nothin' my head can't stand.

  Louis Armstrong

  Mouths, Parliament, Effective Communication

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• I believe that professional wrestling is clean and everything else in the world is fixed.

  Frank Deford

  Believe, Wrestling, World

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• It devastates me now that I have been reduced to a Hollywood statistic - another joke marriage.

  Sophia Bush

  Hollywood, Has Beens, Jokes

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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

  Religious, Tone, Arguing

  Ann Coulter (2003). “Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right”, p.2, Crown Forum

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• I found out that smoking is the leading cause of statistics.

  Matthew Gray Gubler

  Smoking, Causes, Found

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When one man dies it is a tragedy, when thousands die it's statistics.

  Joseph Stalin

  Men, Tragedy, Dies

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• The statistics of mines that need clearance are staggering but the truth is it's a challenge that is absolutely doable.

  David Knopfler

  Challenges, Needs, Truth Is

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• Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.

  Charles Dickens

  Hard Times, Want, Facts

  Hard Times bk. 1, ch. 1 (1854)

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• The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.

  Paul Fix

  Funny, Thinking, People

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Statistics prove that teenage Internet gambling is the fastest growing addiction of the day, akin to drug and alcohol abuse in the 1930s. It's pernicious, it's evil, it's certainly one that feeds on those who are the weakest members of society - and that's the young and the poor.

  David Robertson

  Teenage, Gambling, Evil

  "Study: Internet gambling stakes are high". www.cnn.com. March 17, 2002.

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• The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards.

  Alexander Jablokov

  Truth, Honesty, Long

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• Good science is more than the mechanics of research and experimentation. Good science requires that scientists look inward-to contemplate the origin of their thoughts. The failures of science do not begin with flawed evidence or fumbled statistics; they begin with personal self-deception and an unjustified sense of knowing.

  Robert A. Burton

  Humility, Self, Knowing

  Robert A. Burton, M.D., M.D. (2008). “On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not”, p.170, Macmillan

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• It is well known that strong to violent tornado activity in the US has decreased markedly since statistics began in the 1950s, which has also been a period of average warming. So, if anything, global warming causes FEWER tornado outbreaks...not more. In other words, more violent tornados would, if anything, be a sign of 'global cooling,' not 'global warming.'

  Roy Spencer

  Strong, Average, Weather

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• Even in the face of continued good news, Kerry clings to his message of gloom and doom, supporting it with twisted statistics. Kerry's complaints about a middle class squeeze are out of touch with the reality that home sales hit a record high last month, college tuition increases slowed and consumer confidence is rising.

  Steve Schmidt

  Home, Reality, College

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• He is so efficient. He seems to be playing smarter, more confidently. I think they have given him more responsibility. He's very, very accurate and doesn't make many mistakes. The statistics show he has three interceptions, but in reality it's only one. The others were deflected passes by receivers who should have caught balls.

  Pat Haden

  Mistake, Responsibility, Reality

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• Statistics are like miniskirts: They give you good ideas but hide the important things.

  Ebbe Skovdahl

  Soccer, Football, Ideas

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