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

Hilaire Belloc
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  2. A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey. - Banksy

  3. I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly! - Richard Feynman

  4. All statistics have outliers. - Nenia Campbell

  5. There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics. - Benjamin Disraeli

More Quotes By Hilaire Belloc
  1. For I know that we laughers have a gross cousinship with the most high, and it is this contrast and perpetual quarrel which feeds a spring of merriment in the soul of a sane man.

  2. From quiet homes and first beginning, Out to the undiscovered ends, There's nothing worth the wear of winning, But laughter and the love of friends.

  3. He [the poet] brings out the inner part of things and presents them to men in such a way that they cannot refuse but must accept it. But how the mere choice and rhythm of words should produce so magical an effect no one has...

  4. When I am dead, I hope it may be said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

  5. Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army!

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