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There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up. – Rex Stout, Death of a Doxy

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Round numbers are always false. – Samuel Johnson

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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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Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you should be perfectly comfortable. – Bobby Bragan, 1963

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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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