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If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as there is enough of them.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

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.

Statistics are like lampposts: they are good to lean on, but they don't shed much light.

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

Round numbers are always false.

There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up, and the kind you make up.

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

Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.

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

Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....

I could prove God statistically.

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.

A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into thereoms.

If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.

Before a cure is found we will all have been affected one way or another.