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He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts - for support rather than for illumination. (Quote by - Andrew Lang)


Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business. (Quote by - Zig Ziglar)


I can prove anything by statistics except the truth. (Quote by - George Canning)


The order of the world is always right -- such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin. (Quote by - Jean Baudrillard)


A judicious man uses statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted upon him. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)


The only things that really keep me going are statistics. (Quote by - Richard Hadlee)


Statistics are used like a drunk uses a lamp post - for support, not illumination. (Quote by - Vince Scully)


Round numbers are always false. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)


Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics. (Quote by - Fletcher Knebel)


There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up. (Quote by - Rex Stout)


Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." (Quote by - Mark Twain)


The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic. (Quote by - Joe Stalin)


Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted. (Quote by - George Gallup)


Statistics are like women; mirrors of purest virtue and truth, or like whores to use as one pleases. (Quote by - Theodor Billroth)


A statistical analysis, properly conducted, is a delicate dissection of uncertainties, a surgery of suppositions. (Quote by - M.J. Moroney)



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