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Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable fact

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures. – Evan Esar

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Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasnt done it. – Evan Esar

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Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures dont lie, but admits than under analysis some of them wont stand up either. – Evan Esar

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Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary. – Evan Esar

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The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. – Bill Gates

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Its like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and Im so not that. I never was that Ill never be that. That is part of the business that I dont like. Maybe that will always keep me an outsider, I dont know. But thats fine. – Chloe Sevigny

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When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career. – Calvin Klein

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