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• Most human problems can be solved by an appropriate charge of high explosive.

  Joe Gayton

  Problem, Humans, Appropriate

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• Damn description, it is always disgusting.

  Lord Byron

  Description, Damn, Disgusting

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2596, Delphi Classics

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• The truth is that the 143 million orphaned children and the 11 million who starve to death or die from preventable diseases and the 8.5 million who work as child slaves, prostitutes, or under other horrific conditions and the 2.3 million who live with HIV add up to 164.8 million needy children. And though at first glance that looks like a big number, 2.1 billion people on this earth proclaim to be Christians. The truth is that if only 8 percent of the Christians would care for one more child, there would not be any statistics left.

  Katie Davis

  Christian, Children, Numbers

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• Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-postsfor support rather than illumination.

  Andrew Lang

  Illumination, Drunk, Support

  1910 Speech. Quoted in Alan L Mackay The Harvest of a Quiet Eye (1977).

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• I wanted to be an archaeologist. But in school you have to take a tremendous amount of statistics for that, and I am not good at statistics. So I hit a real wall with archaeology. It's probably like wanting to be an architect - you think it's all fun and games, and then you have to get out a calculator and you're done.

  Sloane Crosley

  Wall, Fun, Real

  Interview with Meghan Daum, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 8, 2015.

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• According to statistics, it's a lot easier to get hit by lightning than to win a Lotto jackpot. The good side: you don't hear from your relatives.

  Johnny Carson

  Winning, Lightning, Sides

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• I cannot resist making the observation that some people use statistics as a drunk uses a lamppost - more to lean on than for illumination.

  Alfred E. Perlman

  Illumination, People, Drunk

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• Well, of course, all of the statistics say there are fewer eligible black men in my circle. But I've never thought of it that way. I believe that if the right person came into my life that would have been terrific.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Believe, Men, Circles

  "Dr. Rice Makes a House Call". Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• Most memoirs about alcoholism, promiscuity, and addiction are deep, sobering tales full of scars that will never heal and include alarming statistics and reflection about recovery.This is not one of those memoirs.

  Kate Madison

  Recovery, Reflection, Addiction

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• According to statistics, one person out of five is disturbed. If there are four people around you who seem normal, that's not good.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  People, Four, Normal

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• The Wall will stand for a hundred years.

  Erich Honecker

  Wall, Years, Hundred

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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

  Funny, Humorous, Believe

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• I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible.

  Fred Hoyle

  Data, Logic, Incredibles

  Quoted in D.O. Edge and M.J. Mulkay's Astronomy Transformed (p. 432)

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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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• People must not attempt to impose their own 'truth' on others. The right to profess the truth must always be upheld, but not in a way that involves contempt for those who may think differently. Truth imposes itself solely by the force of its own truth.

  Pope John Paul II

  Thinking, People, May

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• Network. Anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.

  Samuel Johnson

  Distance, Internet, Equal

  A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)

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• The business of a poet is to examine not the individual but the species; to remark general properties and large appearances.

  Samuel Johnson

  Poet, Individual, Said

  "Selected Poetry and Prose".

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• It's against my programming to impersonate a deity.

  Lawrence Kasdan

  Deities, Programming, Impersonate

  Lawrence Kasdan, George Lucas (1994). “Star Wars: The Screenplay. Return of the Jedi”

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• I'm a visual thinker, really bad at algebra. There's others that are a pattern thinker. These are the music and math minds. They think in patterns instead of pictures. Then there's another type that's not a visual thinker at all, and they're the ones that memorize all of the sports statistics, all of the weather statistics.

  Temple Grandin

  Sports, Math, Thinking

  "A Conversation with Temple Grandin". "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 20, 2006.

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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

  Philosophy, Preparation, Looks

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• There are certainly statistics which show that most people who become sociopaths, who become homicidal, who become child- abusers, have had a history of incredible suffering. This is what we call the transmission of family sin, in which these unconscious patterns get carried on for generations in a legacy of pain. When they are not brought to awareness and worked through, each generation just automatically enacts them.

  Connie Zweig

  Children, Pain, People

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• If I were sitting down with George Steinbrenner (to discuss a salary) and based on what Dave Winfield got for his statistics, I'd have to say, 'George, you and I are about to become partners.'

  Joe DiMaggio

  Sitting Down, Salary, Dave

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• Economist Frederick Thayer has studied the history of our balanced-budget crusades and has come up with some depressing statistics. We have had six major depressions in our history (1819, 1837, 1857, 1873, 1893 and 1929); all six of them followed sustained periods of reducing the national debt. We have had almost chronic deficits since the 1930s, and there has been no depression since then - the longest crash-free period in our history.

  Molly Ivins

  Depressing, Debt, Libertarian

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• In Our Underachieving Colleges, [Derek] Bok acts as both diagnostician and healer, wielding social-science statistics and professional studies to trace the etiology of today's illnesses and to recommend palliative treatments for what he has discovered.

  Donald Kagan

  College, Today, Study

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• My basic idea is that programming is the most powerful medium of developing the sophisticated and rigorous thinking needed for mathematics, for grammar, for physics, for statistics, for all the "hard" subjects.... In short, I believe more than ever that programming should be a key part of the intellectual development of people growing up.

  Seymour Papert

  Growing Up, Powerful, Believe

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