Evan Esar Quotes

Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.

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• I have not seen 'Vaalu' yet, but I am sure it will be good.

  

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• The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.

  

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• I'm a homebody for sure. I do a lot of work at home.

  

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• The way I see politics is, I don't think it's cynical to accept the fact politicians are human beings, that they're flawed, and they represent the best and the worst of us.

  

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• Coming where I'm coming from, really, my family name isn't a pressure because, you know, music is not like sports, where you can go and do a hundred reps in a gym and come out and be all buffed up. Music is an expression of what's inside of you. And that's how I make music.

  

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• The Defense Department must do a better job of providing the best possible care for service women who are victims of sexual assault.

  

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• The background of the Negro culture is voodoo and magic; and the purposes the magic are control and power over God, man, nature and society. Voodoo and magic was the religion and life of America's Negro.

  

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• When it comes to sexuality, sensuality, self-representation, self-nurturance - America fails in those departments.

  

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• We can understand almost anything, but we can't understand how we understand.

  

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• A full and candid admission of one's mistakes should make proof against its repetition.

  

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• For avarice begins where poverty ends.

  

  Honore de Balzac
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• People doubted me, said I lacked skill. I'm just trying to stay consistent, use my minutes wisely, and do what I can with the opportunity.

  

  Anthony Bennett
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• Sweet is true love though given in vain, in vain; And sweet is death who puts an end to pain: I know not which is sweeter, no, not I. Love, art thou sweet? then bitter death must be: Love, thou art bitter; sweet is death to me. O Love, if death be sweeter, let me die. ... I fain would follow love, if that could be; I needs must follow death, who calls for me; Call and I follow, I follow! let me die.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
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• We won't win until the average parent believes drug reform protects kids better than the war on drugs.

  

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• Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Believes
  • Analysis
  • Admits