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Polls: Obama weathers Wright controversy
Preferences for both Democratic candidates remain largely unchanged.
Katharine Mieszkowski [2008-03-27]

  • Wasn't McCain statistically dead only a year ago?

    Smoking is one of the leading causes of all statistics.

    Liza Minnelli

    USA Today has come out with a new survey: Apparently three out of four people make up 75 percent of the population.

    David Letterman

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

    Ernest Rutherford

    You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

    David Lloyd George

    He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts—for support rather than for illumination.

    Andrew Lang

    I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.

    George Canning

    Statistics are no substitute for judgment.

    Henry Clay

    Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie.

    Harry Reasoner

    Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

    Evan Esar

    Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.

    Evan Esar

    -- chhabili
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    Thursday, March 27, 2008 07:21 PM
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