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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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America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week. – 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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Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasnt done it. – Evan Esar

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Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results. – Scott Adams

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If you dont drive your business, you will be driven out of business. – B. C. Forbes

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You know who a complicated tax code kills? The guy or gal trying to start a business out of the spare bedroom of their home. So weve got to simplify our tax code. – Marco Rubio

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The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next. – V. S. Naipaul

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The prince who would know all, must ignore much. – Domitius Afer, translated from Latin

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Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance. – Epicurus

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I read my eyes out and cant read half enough. The more one reads the more one sees we have to read. – John Adams

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Despite our very recent appearance on the planet, humanity combines arrogance with increasing material demands, even as we become more numerous. Our toughness is a delusion. Have we the intelligence and discipline to vigilantly guard against our tendency to grow without limit? – Lynn Margulis

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