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Quote by Theodor Billroth
Statistics are like women; mirrors of purest virtue and truth, or

Statistics are like women; mirrors of purest virtue and truth, or like whores to use as one pleases. – Theodor Billroth

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I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, Im not going to deny that you dont now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand. – Ronald Reagan

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