George A. Romero
Filmmaker
"If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart."
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Kim Campbell
Politician
"For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation."
Galileo Galilei
Astronomer, Physicist
"Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Military Leader, Politician
"Plans are nothing; planning is everything."
Thomas Aquinas
Philosopher, Theologian
"The light of faith makes us see what we believe."
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"The customer is usually wrong, but statistics indicate that it doesn't pay to tell him so"
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"You see, but you do not observe."
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"Do not trust any statistics you did not fake yourself."
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"Misinterpretation is the most deadly of human sins."
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"It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem."
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"Algebras (jabbre and maqabeleh) are geometric facts which are proved by propositions five and six of Book two of Elements."
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"So strong is the power of superstition that even though we know that we have been reverencing a sham, yet still we hesitate to admit the validity of our new-found convictions."
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"Everything flows, nothing stays still."
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"Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief."
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"Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue."
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"If all the statisticians in the world were laid head to toe, they wouldn't be able to reach a conclusion"
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"According to statistics, it's a lot easier to get hit by lightning than to win a Lotto jackpot. The good side: you don't hear from your relatives."
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"Art is the expression of the profoundest thoughts in the simplest way."
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"For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it."
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"And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters."
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"When one man dies it is a tragedy, when thousands die it's statistics."
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"Damn description, it is always disgusting."
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"It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics."
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"In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature."
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"But to us, probability is the very guide of life."
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