Statistics Quotes - Page 36

• Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics.

  Ernie Banks

  Sports, Baseball, Mean

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• That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Poetic, Moments, Disbelief

  Biographia Literaria ch. 14 (1817)

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• A woman is often measured by the things she cannot control. She is measured by the way her body curves or doesn't curve, by where she is flat or straight or round. She is measured by 36-24-36 and inches and ages and numbers, by all the outside things that don’t ever add up to who she is on the inside. And so if a woman is to be measured, let her be measured by the things she can control, by who she is and who she is trying to become. Because as every woman knows, measurements are only statistics... and STATISTICS LIE.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Lying, Curves, Numbers

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• It was the consideration of the multitude of souls which fall into the depths of Hell, because it is of faith that all those who die in mortal sin are condemned forever and ever. According to statistics, approximately 80,000 persons die every day. How many of these will die in mortal sin, and how many will be condemned, for, as their lives have been, so also will their end be.

  Anthony Mary Claret

  Fall, Soul, Depth

  "The Autobiography of St. Anthony Mary Claret".

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• All the statistics in the world can't measure the warmth of a smile.

  Chris Hart

  Smile, Laughter, Optimistic

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• Woe be to him that reads but one book.

  George Herbert

  Book, Reading, Woe

  George Herbert (1856). “The Works of George Herbert, in Prose and Verse: Edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott, Incumbent of Bear Wood. With Illustrations”, p.224

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• The plural of anecdote is not data.

  Marc Bekoff

  Wisdom, Science, Data

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• Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious

  Daniel Libeskind

  Interesting, Obvious, Participation

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• Statistics show that a soldier's chances of survival in the front lines of combat are greater than the chances of an unborn child avoiding abortion. What should be the safest place to live in America - a mother's womb - is now the most dangerous place.

  Randy Alcorn

  Mother, Children, Pregnancy

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• Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

  Democritus

  Motivational, Philosophy, Science

  Diogenes Laertius, vol.9.

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  If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart.

  George A. Romero

  Writing, Bucks, Pay

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• In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted; if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.

  Tom Seaver

  Leadership, Sports, Baseball

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

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• Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

  Albert Camus

  Sleep, Insomnia, People

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• In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

  Galileo Galilei

  Truth, Inspiration, Independent

  "Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men". Book by François Arago, as translated by Baden Powell, Robert Grant, and William Fairbairn, p. 365, 1859.

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• I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.

  Peter De Vries

  Life, Morning, Inspiration

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• It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

  Aristotle

  Workout, Live Life, Philosophical

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• We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures. We succeeded because the time was right and the news media cooperated. We sensationalized the effects of illegal abortions, and fabricated polls which indicated that 85 percent of the public favored unrestricted abortion, when we knew it was only 5 percent. We unashamedly lied, and yet our statements were quoted [by the media] as though they had been written in law.

  Bernard Nathanson

  Media, Law, Pro Life

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  If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Maya Angelou (1997). “The Heart of a Woman”, Bantam

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• There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

  William James

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Sadness

  Principles of Psychology (1890) vol. 1, ch. 4

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