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One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus. – Laplace, Théorie analytique des probabilités, 1820

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Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. – Aaron Levenstein

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Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped off. – Paul Brodeur, Outrageous Misconduct

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I always find that statistics are hard to swallow and impossible to digest. The only one I can ever remember is that if all the people who go to sleep in church were laid end to end they would be a lot more comfortable. – Mrs. Robert A. Taft

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