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Statistic Quotes (page 4)

Winston Churchill quote: "I only believe in statistics that I doctored myself"
I only believe in statistics that I doctored myself Winston Churchill
His answers were quite often like that. When she spoke of beauty, he spoke of the fatty tissue supporting the epidermis. When she mentioned love, he responded with the statistical curve that indicates the automatic rise and fall in the annual birthrate. When she spoke of the great figures in art, he traced the chain of borrowings that links these figures to one another. Robert Musil
Joseph Stalin quote: "One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic."
One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic. Joseph Stalin
I got a statistic for you right now. Grab your pencil, Doug. There are five billion trees in the world. I looked it up. Under every tree is a shadow, right? So, then, what makes night? I'll tell you: shadows crawling out from under five billion trees! Think of it! Shadows running around in the air, muddying the waters you might say. If only we could figure a way to keep those darn five billion shadows under those trees, we could stay up half the night, Doug, because there'd be no night! Ray Bradbury
Joseph Stalin quote: "When one person dies, it's a tragedy, but when a million..."
When one person dies, it's a tragedy, but when a million people die, it's a statistic. Joseph Stalin
George Orwell quote: "He fell asleep murmuring 'Sanity is not statistical,' with the..."
He fell asleep murmuring 'Sanity is not statistical,' with the feeling that this remark contained in it a profound wisdom. George Orwell
They can print statistics and count the populations in hundreds of thousands, but to each man a city consists of no more than a few streets, a few houses, a few people. Remove those few and a city exists no longer except as a pain in the memory, like a pain of an amputated leg no longer there. Graham Greene
...why be an average person? All the great achievements of history have been made by strong individuals who refused to consult statistics or to listen to those who could prove convincingly that what they wanted to do, and in fact ultimately did do, was completely impossible Eric Butterworth
George Orwell quote: "Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning..."
Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought. George Orwell
To ask me to verify my life by giving you my statistics is like using science to validate sorcery. It robs the world of its magic and makes milestones out of us all. Carlos Castaneda
According to Babette, 98.3 percent of lawyers end up in Hell. That's in contrast to the 23 percent of farmers who are eternally damned. Some 45 percent of retail business owners are Hellbound, and 85 percent of computer software writers. Perhaps a trace number of politicians ascend to Heaven, but statistically speaking, 100 percent of them are cast into the fiery pit. As are essentially 100 percent of journalists and redheads. Chuck Palahniuk
Our historical experience teaches us that men imitate one another, that their attitudes are statistically calculable, their opinions manipulable, and that man is therefore less an individual (a subject) than an element in a mass. Milan Kundera
For the true measure of agriculture is not the sophistication of its equipment the size of its income or even the statistics of its productivity but the good health of the land. Wendell Berry
Bill Russell quote: "The only important statistic is the final score."
The only important statistic is the final score. Bill Russell
The writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no trouble in writing a scientific treatise on the folk-lore of Central China, or a statistical enquiry into the declining population of Prince Edward Island. But to write something out of one's own mind, worth reading for its own sake, is an arduous contrivance only to be achieved in fortunate moments, few and far in between. Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the... Stephen Leacock

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