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Quote by Andrew Lang
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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I could prove God statistically. – George Gallup

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I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live. – Louis D. Brandeis

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