"Like other occult techniques of divination, the statistical method has a private jargon deliberately contrived to obscure its methods from non-practitioners."

Ashley, G. O. on Statistics
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"Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment."

Baudrillard, Jean on Statistics
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"Statistics are no substitute for judgment."

Clay, Henry on Statistics
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"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."

Disraeli, Benjamin on Statistics
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"I could prove God statistically."

Gallup, George on Statistics
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"Round numbers are always false."

Johnson, Samuel on Statistics
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"Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics."

Knebel, Fletcher on Statistics
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"He used statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts; for support rather than illumination."

Lang, Andrew on Statistics
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"I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand."

Reagan, Ronald on Statistics
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"A single death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic."

Stalin, Joseph on Statistics
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"There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up, and the kind you make up."

Stout, Rex on Statistics
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"Statistically, the probability of any of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in contented dazzlement of surprise."

Thomas, Lewis on Statistics
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"There are lies, damned lies, and statistics."

Twain, Mark on Statistics
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"Often statistics are used as a drunken man uses lamp posts... for support rather than illumination."

Unknown, Source on Statistics
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