Statistics Quotes
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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
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Whether statistics be an art or a science... or a scientific art, we concern ourselves little. It is the basis of social and political dynamics, and affords the only secure ground on which the truth or falsehood of the theories and hypotheses of that complicated science can be brought to the test.
Adolphe Quetelet
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The Government are very keen on amassing statistics - they collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams.
Josiah Stamp
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One of the statistics that always amazes me is the approval of the Chinese government, not elected, is over 80 percent. The approval of the U.S. government, fully elected, is 19 percent. Well, we elected these people and they didn't elect those people. Isn't it supposed to be different? Aren't we supposed to like the people that we elected?
Bill Gates
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It doesn't matter how fast your modem is if you're being shelled by ethnic separatists.
William Gibson
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Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie.
Harry Reasoner
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According to the statistics, a man eats a prune every twenty seconds. I don't know who this fellow is, but I know where to find him.
Morey Amsterdam
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Facts speak louder than statistics.
Geoffrey Streatfeild
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There's going to be a big impact there for a number of weeks. It's big enough to show up in the national statistics.
Ben Bernanke
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I really don't care much about baseball, or looking at ball games, major or minor. All my interest in baseball is in its statistics.
Ernest Lanigan
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If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as there is enough of them.
Lewis Carroll
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You read statistics all the time like, "13 million people are at risk because of the severe drought in East Africa," but I think those kinds of numbers fall on deaf ears - there's so much devastation in the world, that it's a bit overwhelming for people.
Scarlett Johansson
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Any statistics can be extrapolated to the point where they show disaster.
Thomas Sowell
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Statistics, one may hope, will improve gradually, and become good for something. Meanwhile, it is to be feared the crabbed satirist was partly right, as things go: "A judicious man," says he, "looks at Statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted on him."
Thomas Carlyle
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If statistics are any indication, the system may well be allowing some innocent defendants to be executed.
Sandra Day O'Connor
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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
