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Oh, people can come up with statistics to prove anything. 14% of people know that.

It was probably one of the strangest seasons I've ever had. The statistics say I didn't struggle. But my standards are different than everybody else's. That has been the case for a long time.

It will be interesting to see how quickly the market goes to worrying about what the Fed will do in August. We've just seen one month's statistics showing the economy is slowing.

They based their reaction to our significant proposal by saying they would be right back where they were. Well, that's a bunch of hogwash. What they did is they mixed up and diced up some statistics in a blender and came out with what I think are just absolutely ridiculous forecasts.

They were there because they have very good information and they have very good statistics and they are also committed to stemming the tide of illegal immigration.

The census numbers tell us what we've known for years -- that soaring health care inflation is making health insurance unaffordable, so more folks go uninsured, and those who can afford it find their policies cover less and less. The data shows a continued deterioration in the use of employer-provided health insurance and increased reliance on Medicaid and public programs. If it had not been for more people moving into public programs, the number of uninsured would have increased another 2.3 million, the statistics show.

I'm definitely feeling, as the statistics say, that there is a larger inventory on the market right now. And that's really what's been driving our appreciation these last couple years, that very low inventory.

I'm just excited to get out there and get some statistics and real wins and losses going. Spring Training is so long; we're finally at the end of the tunnel." ()

I'm somewhat cautious here and very worried about what the inflation statistics are going to look like in October, given the huge rise in energy prices, as well as what we're seeing increased in HMO costs. Right now I think the market is in a rally. It's off the latest low in early August. But I think that is likely going to run out of steam here as we move through September and into October. So I'd be very cautious for the rest of the year once we get into October.

Individual statistics are fine and dandy, but it's lonely out there. You want to share with the 24 other guys that helped you be successful.

Individual statistics are fine and dandy, but it's lonely out there, ... You want to share with the 24 other guys that helped you be successful.

If you examine the intensification of a single storm, or even the statistics on intensification for a particular season, factors like wind shear can play an important role. However, there is no global trend in wind shear or the other factors over the 35-year period.

If you look at statistics about their economic prospects, it's not really as promising. Yet personally, they are optimistic.

If you look at Census Bureau statistics for the number of children who are in child care, you would expect the rate to be about 7 percent -- certainly less than 10 percent.

In the ski jump someone did the math wrong, and for 50 years the wrong person had the bronze medal. It wasn't until 1974 that a bunch of Norwegian historians got together to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Winter Games, and one of them looked at the statistics in the ski jump and realized that an American, Anders Haugen, had actually won the bronze medal, and a Norwegian had gone to his grave thinking he had won. But Haugen was still alive--he was 85--and he finally got his bronze medal.

I really doubt many teams around here have statistics like that.

In the publication, utilization and analysis of the survey results, departments and local governments concerned should continue to abide by the Statistics Law and the Regulations on National Economic Survey, to protect business confidentiality and privacy of the respondents, and to honor earnestly the commitments of not levying any penalties on the respondents on the basis of survey information.

In the last two years, men have gotten more involved in familial health. While women continue to generally feel responsible for maintaining healthy families, the statistics show that men are becoming more health active, not just for themselves but for their families.

In the oil business, you have a lot of good statistics you can sink your teeth into. In natural gas, you have a lot less. It moves much more on the basis of crowd behavior.

I played bad and good, ... I served good, but I returned very bad. He's not a big server, but I saw that statistics and from 90 points, I won 20 on his serve. So that was the key to the match.

Being lectured about dignity from a candidate who has spent his campaign on complaining about statistics he knows are false and who has resorted to desperate attacks in the final days is beyond the pale.

He's really charging in, his pace is good and his statistics are great. It's good to see.

I didn't sign three years ago (with the Rangers) because I enjoy statistics. I enjoy winning, ... You sacrifice statistics for the team. Those things brought me success. The biggest factors were the way the coach coaches the team and the way his teams play and that was good enough for me.

Everything has already begun before, the first line of the first page of every novel refers to something that has already happened outside the book.

Changing the statistics doesn't create any jobs, it merely changes the headlines. Sanford seems more concerned with repairing his own political problem than in solving our state's jobs problem.

He said the difference between a .300 hitter and a .280 hitter on a 600 at-bat season is only like 12 hits. So what Pete used to do was look in terms of every 100 at-bats . . . so you're not constantly thinking day-by-day. You can get caught up in your own statistics and get yourself in a lot of trouble. It's a long season.

Generating these sorts of statistics helps explain to a player how well they are performing. It's giving much more information to the players, which in turn helps improve their performance.

Certainly he who can digest a second or third fluxion need not, methinks, be squeamish about any point in divinity.

The Wall will stand for a hundred years.

And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.

When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.

We all know that Americans love their statistics - in sport, obviously. And in finance too.

[Statistics] The science that can prove everything except the usefulness of statistics.

[Statistics] Fiction in its most uninteresting form.

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.

All those statistics that you are gathering about your own experiences and about others are only about how somebody has flowed Energy. It isn't about any hard fast reality.

The essential feature of statistics is a prudent and systematic ignoring of details.

I know my statistics have not been the same as in other years but I'm fighting to get back to those statistics,

A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.

Statistics are there to be broken.

In mathematics I can report no deficiency, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of Pure Mathematics.

And as for Mixed Mathematics, I may only make this prediction, that there cannot fail to be more kinds of them, as nature grows further disclosed.

The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.

I do not believe in things. I believe in relationships.

Statistical science is indispensable to modern statesmanship. In legislation as in physical science it is beginning to be understood that we can control terrestrial forces only by obeying their laws. The legislator must formulate in his statutes not only the national will, but also those great laws of social life revealed by statistics.

It is here [in mathematics] that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination.

We have the best customer satisfaction record, based on Transportation Dept. statistics, of any airline in America, the fewest complaints filed per 100,000 passengers carried. So you're not just getting low fares, you're also getting wonderful customer service.

Every thought is an afterthought.

With the destruction of history, contemporary events themselves retreat into a remote and fabulous realm of unverifiable stories, uncheckable statistics, unlikely explanations and untenable reasoning.

I don't understand. All of a sudden, it's not just BA and Runs Scored, it's OBA. And what is with O-P-S?

Statistics began as the systematic study of quantitative facts about the state.

Statistics were magic like this: they could tell you with near-certainty that a thing would occur, without a hint of when or where.

If I'm on the weak side and one of my players is on the strong side and he's coming to the basket, I might just pull on the guys shorts --and that's not going to show up in statistics --but the player on my team knows that guy couldn't come over because I pulled him. How do you measure that?

I don't think the recovery is in danger. But I think what we have here is a situation where the Federal Reserve will probably look at the numbers a lot more closely. If we see another two or three economic statistics that surprise us, yes the Fed can pause and not raise rates in August.

I assume those numbers are correct, because the governor was asked twice tonight to respond to those statistics and refused to challenge them. That is a record on health care that the American people should know about.

I am 5 ft 6 in, and at my peak, my vital statistics were 37-22-35. I didn't even think about my weight - but now I work hard at keeping healthy. Fortunately, my husband Richie is as much of a fitness buff as I am.

I believe it's premature to take a defensive stance on the market at this time. As painful as this has been - and if you look at breadth statistics you get a little upset - I still think it's a temporary move. It's close to reaching an oversold condition.

I am mainly in favor of the issue because of the need to protect individual liberty. But, the research I have done and the statistics I have compiled show that states that have the Right to Work have better economies and are ahead of states that allow forced unionization.

Gore has the economy on his side and the statistics he will be able to produce will be an impressive argument. I am expecting a very close election,

Prolonged statistics are a lethal dose, which if it does not kill will certainly dispel your audience.

Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

Without going out of my door I can know all things on Earth.

In statistics, what disappears behind rows of numbers is death.

Statistics are about as interesting as first base coaches.

Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture....

Software breaks before it bends, so it demands perfection in a universe that prefers statistics.

Statistics is the grammar of science.

Economist Frederick Thayer has studied the history of our balanced-budget crusades and has come up with some depressing statistics. We have had six major depressions in our history (1819, 1837, 1857, 1873, 1893 and 1929); all six of them followed sustained periods of reducing the national debt. We have had almost chronic deficits since the 1930s, and there has been no depression since then - the longest crash-free period in our history.

I could ask the Phillies to keep me on to add to my statistics, but my love for the game won't let me do that.

Probability is the very guide of life.

That is probable which for the most part usually comes to pass, or which is a part of the ordinary beliefs of mankind.

Statistics are like miniskirts, they reveal more than what they hide.

I bathe in statistics.

My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won't yield to computation.

If I were sitting down with George Steinbrenner (to discuss a salary) and based on what Dave Winfield got for his statistics, I'd have to say, 'George, you and I are about to become partners.'

When one man dies it is a tragedy, when thousands die it's statistics.

Although to penetrate into the intimate mysteries of nature and thence to learn the true causes of phenomena is not allowed to us, nevertheless it can happen that a certain fictive hypothesis may suffice for explaining many phenomena.

You can never compare a stadium full of people to statistics online ... There's something about seeing people's faces, and it's amazing [seeing how] things online can also be translated offline.

it is only in statistics that people die by the millions. Each person dies individually, in his own predicament.

Theories are just fantasies. And they change.

God is just a statistics.

To me, the main weakness of EDA is its failure to enquire why the data were collected in the first place and its consequent tendency to apply ingenious methods largely because they are so attractively ingenious.

Every month, we get the reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that say even more people have given up looking for work.

There has been this - and it's reflected in the broadcasts - this moronic use of statistics. Which has suggested to everyone who is intelligent the use of statistics is moronic.

Work, finish, publish.

Stories are more than compelling facts. People remember stories more than they remember statistics.

We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.

If one puts an infinite number of monkeys in front of typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty that one of them will come out with an exact version of the 'Iliad.'

Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.

Infinity converts the possible into the inevitable.

When a coincidence seems amazing, that's because the human mind isn’t wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics.

Don't let the fear of statistics keep you from launching a continual improvement program. The statistics hurdle is easily overcome, going out of business is not.

Luck is statistics taken personally.

Considering the alternative. . . it's not too bad at all.

Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.

The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard.

I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good statistics.

In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.

Without analysis, no synthesis.

According to statistics, it's a lot easier to get hit by lightning than to win a Lotto jackpot. The good side: you don't hear from your relatives.