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• There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.

  Josefina Vazquez Mota

  Lying, Science, Two

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• We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'.

  Arthur Eddington

  Learning, Math, Thinking

  "A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations" by Alan L. Mackay, (p. 79), 1991.

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• Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.

  Lord Dunsany

  Taken, Math, Novelists

  "My Ireland". Book by Lord Dunsany (Chapter XIX: Weeds and Moss), 1937.

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• With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that - there are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action to try to balance out those effects.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Motivation, School, Yale

  "Videotaped remarks shed light on Sotomayor" by Charlie Savage, www.sfgate.com. June 11, 2009.

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• I know my statistics have not been the same as in other years but I'm fighting to get back to those statistics.

  Fernando Torres

  Fighting, Years, Knows

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• In the long run we are all dead.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Funny, Death, Running

  A Tract on Monetary Reform ch. 3 (1923)

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• When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Teaching, Silence, Self Discipline

  'Lacon' (1820) vol. 1, no. 183

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• Inability is often the mother of restriction, and restriction is the great mother of inventive performance.

  Holger Czukay

  Mother, Inability, Restriction

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

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• We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.

  Niels Bohr

  Crazy, Feelings, Chance

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

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• Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.

  Marion Barry

  Funny, Country, Crazy

  Quoted in Chicago Tribune, 28 Mar. 1989

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• Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Real, Science, Imagination

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.87, Princeton University Press

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• The thing with high-tech is that you always end up using scissors.

  David Hockney

  Ends, Scissors

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• Most gun dealers follow the law and run honest businesses. But the statistics show that 1 percent of dealers sell more than half of all illegal guns. Why isn't the federal government going after them? Here's one reason: unlike mayors, members of Congress don't get a phone call in the middle of the night when a cop is shot and killed. They don't deliver the eulogies.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Running, Night, Gun

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• I could ask the Phillies to keep me on to add to my statistics, but my love for the game won't let me do that.

  Mike Schmidt

  Games, Add, Let Me

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• July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in stock, that one fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so

  Mark Twain

  Country, 4th Of July, Years

  Pudd'nhead Wilson Chapter XVII (p. 164)

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• The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Action, Predictions, Function

  Journal of the American Statistical Association Quoted in W.A. Wallis' The Statistical Research Group, 1942-1945 Volume 75, Number 370, June 19 (p. 321)

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• Art is the expression of the profoundest thoughts in the simplest way.

  Albert Einstein

  Art, Expression, Way

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• On a good team there are no superstars. There are great players who show they are great players by being able to play with others as a team. They have the ability to be superstars, but if they fit into a good team, they make sacrifices, they do things necessary to help the team win. What the numbers are in salaries or statistics don't matter; how they play together does.

  Red Holzman

  Basketball, Motivational Sports, Team

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• Crib death was so infrequent in the pre-vaccination era that it was not even mentioned in the statistics, but it started to climb in the 1950s with the spread of mass vaccination against diseases of childhood.

  Harris L Coulter

  Vaccines, Childhood, Disease

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• Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Ignorance, Ignorant, Literature

  Maxims and Reflections I

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• The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.

  Michael Faraday

  Believe, Teaching, Giving

  "A Random Walk in Science". Book by Robert L. Weber, 1973.

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• Thanksgiving is a magical time of year when families across the country join together to raise America's obesity statistics. Personally, I love Thanksgiving traditions: watching football, making pumpkin pie, and saying the magic phrase that sends your aunt storming out of the dining room to sit in her car.

  Stephen Colbert

  Football, Country, Aunt

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• Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.

  William Faulkner

  Fun, Grief, Breathless

  If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem "The Wild Palms" (1939)

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• A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Faith, Truth, Regret

  "The Exploration of Space". Book by Arthur Clark, 1951.

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• Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Life, Death

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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