"I never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head."
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"It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief."
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"Everything has already begun before, the first line of the first page of every novel refers to something that has already happened outside the book."
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"It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact."
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"All intellectual improvement arises from leisure."
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"It is necessary for the very existence of science that minds exist which do not allow that nature must satisfy some preconceived conditions."
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"I don't understand. All of a sudden, it's not just BA and Runs Scored, it's OBA. And what is with O-P-S?"
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"Woe be to him that reads but one book."
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"Since when was genius found respectable?"
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"Price statistics show clearly that instability in raw-material prices is a prime cause of instability of other prices."
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"The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate."
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"The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don't even know you're making."
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"If I can't picture it, I can't understand it."
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"If the consequences are the same it is always better to assume the more limited antecedent, since in things of nature the limited, as being better, is sure to be found, wherever possible, rather than the unlimited."
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"We know nothing until intuition agrees."
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"One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife."
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"The type of measure used placed constraints on which statistics can be used."
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"By the laws of statistics we could probably approximate just how unlikely it is that it would happen. But people forget especially those who ought to know better, such as yourself that while the laws of statistics tell you how unlikely a particular coincidence is, they state just as firmly that coincidences do happen."
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"Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture."
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"The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding."
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