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Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest.

Reverend Larry Lorenzoni

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

Jorge Luis Borges

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

Wallace Irwin

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.

Ernest Rutherford

Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.

William W. Watt

All the statistics in the world can't measure the warmth of a smile.

Chris Hart

A baseball fan has the digestive apparatus of a billy goat. He can, and does, devour any set of diamond statistics with insatiable appetite and then nuzzles hungrily for more

Daley

In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted, if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end

Tom Seaver

A baseball fan has the digestive apparatus of a billy goat. He can, and does, devour any set of diamond statistics with insatiable appetite and then nuzzles hungrily for more.

Daley

In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies

Stephen Leacock

Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Jonathan Raban

Things are always best seen when they are a trifle mixed-up, a trifle disordered; the chilly administrative neatness of museums and filing cases, of statistics and cemeteries, is an inhuman and antinatural kind of order; it is, in a word, disorder.

Camilo Jose Cela

They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there.

Mike Schmidt

Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.

Alphonse Allais

Statistics is the grammar of science.

Karl Pearson

Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest.

Larry Lorenzoni

Baseball is an island of activity amidst a sea of statistics

Unknown

Baseball statistics are like a girl in a bikini. They show a lot, but not everything

Toby Harrah

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.

Jean Baudrillard

Loyalty is dead, the experts proclaim, and the statistics seem to bear them out. On average, U.S. corporations now lose half their customers in five years, half their employees in four, and half their investors in less than one. We seem to face a future in which the only business relationships will be opportunistic transactions between virtual strangers.

Frederick F. Reichheld

Feminism has transformed the lives and aspirations of the majority of women in ways unmeasurable by statistics... raising women's intellectual,economic and political expectations, increasing intolerance of wife beating, rape and other violence against women, redefining women's sexuality.

Linda Gordon

Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics

Ernie Banks

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.

Rita Mae Brown

We have a large reservoir of engineers (and scientists) with a vast background of engineering know how. They need to learn statistical methods that can tap into the knowledge. Statistics used as a catalyst to engineering creation will, I believe, always result in the fastest and most economical progress

George Edward Pelham Box

Out of the air a voice without a face Proved by statistics that some cause was just In tones as dry and level as the place: No one was cheered and nothing was discussed...

Wystan Hugh Auden