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He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts — for su

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

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

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