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.

Evan Esar

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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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• Pleasure without Champagne is purely artificial.

  

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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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• Harmony is called the eternal. Knowing the eternal is called clarity.

  

  Lao Tzu
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• Crime requires further crime to conceal it.

  

  Seneca the Younger
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• As the mother's womb holds us for ten months, making us ready, not for the womb itself, but for life, just so, through our lives, we are making ourselves ready for another birth...Therefore look forward without fear to that appointed hour- the last hour of the body, but not of the soul...That day, which you fear as being the end of all things, is the birthday of your eternity.

  

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• There is the potential for dreams to come true, for records to be broken, and medals to be won, and at this time everyone believes that they individually have the potential to make their dream a reality.

  

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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