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

We had kind of a rocky start, but I spent a lot of time working with the President and handing him statistics and showing him what we were doing as we went along and kind of saying to him, you know, this is really important.

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

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.

Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.

Democracy is an abuse 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.

The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo.

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.

I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.

The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere.

Statistics are no substitute for judgment.

I never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head.

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

And with the rape, I was showing why the rape statistics are exaggerated, and saying that date rape was much more complex than the way feminists had portrayed it, as men oppressing women.

However, don't let these statistics mislead you, gang violence is not limited to California and or big urban areas - that might have been true a while ago but it is no longer the case today.

I believe sanity and realism can be restored to the teaching of Mathematical Statistics most easily and directly by entrusting such teaching largely to men and women who have had personal experience of research in the Natural Sciences.

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.

We were not given any statistics as to how many records were pressed on the blue label. I used to ask Bob Shad how we were going to get paid from record sales and what I got for an answer was not to worry about the business end of the deal.