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• The Democrats' response throughout the healthcare debate? Give the people more statistics.

  Simon Sinek

  People, Giving, Healthcare

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• I'm not the only taxpayer who has no idea what he's sending to the IRS. This year, only 28 percent of all Americans will prepare their own tax returns, according to a voice in my head that invents accurate-sounding statistics.

  Dave Barry

  Years, Ideas, Voice

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• Calculus is the most powerful weapon of thought yet devised by the wit of man.

  Wallace B. Smith

  Powerful, Math, Men

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• The lock-step approach of algebra, geometry, and then more algebra (but rarely any statistics) is still dominant in U. S. schools, but hardly anywhere else. This fragmented approach yields effective mathematics education not for the many but for the few primarily those who are independently motivated and who will learn under any conditions.

  Lynn Steen

  Teaching, School, Math

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• Several national tests have revealed the following startling statistics about why salespeople fail...15% Improper training both product and sales skills. 20% Poor verbal and written communication skills. 15% Poor or problematic boss or management. 50% Attitude.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Attitude, Communication, Skills

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• Our social and economic statistics are telling us what we already know in our hearts: we have created a world that works for only a few. To change this, we must learn to act toward each other and our environment in profoundly different ways.

  Vaclav Havel

  Heart, Different, World

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• There are fields of scientific work...which have been explored from the different sides of pure mathematics, statistics, electrical engineering, and neurophysiology...in which every single notion receives a separate and different name from each group, and in which important work has been triplicated or quadruplicated, while still other important work is delayed by the unavailability in one field of results that may have already become classical in the next field.

  Norbert Wiener

  Engineering, Names, Important

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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

  Baseball, Cereal, People

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• In the welter of statistics about selected ethnic origins (singular or multiple) in the last census, one finding was often overlooked. Of the 25,309,330 people living in Canada in 1986, only 69,065 declared themselves as Canadians.

  Charlotte Gray

  People, Canada, Lasts

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• You can never compare a stadium full of people to statistics online ... There's something about seeing people's faces, and it's amazing [seeing how] things online can also be translated offline.

  Lilly Singh

  People, Faces, Online

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Perhaps our most debilitating rut as a culture is a dependence on experts. Until we kick this dependency, how can we rise above the statistics and become a nation of entrepreneurs and leaders? The answer, as challenging as it is, is for entrepreneurs to show us the way, and to keep at it until more of us start to heed.

  Oliver DeMille

  Entrepreneur, Leader, Challenges

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• "[My Beautiful] Dark [Twisted] Fantasy" and "Watch the Throne": neither was nominated for Album of the Year, and I made both of those in one year. I don't know if this is statistically right, but I'm assuming I have the most Grammys of anyone my age, but I haven't won one against a white person. But the thing is, I don't care about the Grammys; I just would like for the statistics to be more accurate.

  Kanye West

  Beautiful, Dark, Years

  "Kanye West's Grammy stats: he definitely does have more than anyone his age" by James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. June 12, 2013.

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• Stories are more than compelling facts. People remember stories more than they remember statistics.

  Soledad O'Brien

  People, Stories, Facts

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• Statistics are like miniskirts, they reveal more than what they hide.

  Navjot Singh Sidhu

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• Statistics is the first of the inexact sciences.

  Edmond de Goncourt

  Firsts

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• I don't think baseball could survive without all the statistical appurtenances involved in calculating pitching, hitting and fielding percentages. Some people could do without the games as long as they got the box scores.

  John M. Culkin

  Baseball, Thinking, Games

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• And if California slides into the ocean, as the mystics and statistics say it will, I predict this hotel will be standing until I've paid my bill.

  Warren Zevon

  Ocean, Future, California

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• Baseball is probably the world's best documented sport.

  Ford Frick

  Sports, Baseball, World

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• I don't understand. All of a sudden, it's not just BA and Runs Scored, it's OBA. And what is with O-P-S?

  Harold Reynolds

  Baseball, Running

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• Statistics are about as interesting as first base coaches.

  Jim Bouton

  Baseball, Interesting, Firsts

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• The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to give the data authenticity.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Order, Data, Giving

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• For the true measure of agriculture is not the sophistication of its equipment the size of its income or even the statistics of its productivity but the good health of the land.

  Wendell Berry

  Land, Agriculture, Income

  Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.144, Counterpoint

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• Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.

  Aldous Huxley

  People, Choices, Crowds

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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• The Place of No Shadows, in Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazine (1990) In our Universe, matter is arranged in a hierarchy of structures by successive integrations.

  Francois Jacob

  Shadow, Fiction, Magazines

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• We must grant the artist his subject, his idea, his donn´e: our criticism is applied only to what he makes of it.

  Henry James

  Artist, Ideas, Criticism

  Henry James, Roger Gard (1987). “The critical muse: selected literary criticism”, Penguin Group USA

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