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Often statistics are used as a drunken man uses lamp posts… for support rather than illumination. – Source Unknown

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He used statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts; for support rather than illumination. – Andrew Lang

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After all, facts are facts, and although we may quote one to another with a chuckle the words of the Wise Statesman, “Lies – damned lies – and statistics,” still there are some easy figures the simplest must understand, and the astutest cannot wriggle out of. – Leonard Courtney, speech, August 1895, New York, "To My Fellow-Disciples at

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