Frederick Mosteller famous quotes
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It is easy to lie with statistics; it is easier to lie without them.
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Although we often hear that data speak for themselves, their voices can be soft and sly
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The main purpose of a significance test is to inhibit the natural enthusiasm of the investigator.
-- Frederick Mosteller
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Television is a constant stream of fact, opinions, lies, moral dilemmas, plots: an infinitely complex and sophisticated torrent of information. How could it not make you cleverer? The only people who ever thought television rotted the brain and made kids dumb were those with a vested interest in other ways of learning, or those who were intellectually insecure, usually about books.
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The safe place lies in obedience to God's Word, singleness of heart and holy vigilance.
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The difference between human heroes and sacred characters lies just in this: the man is just a man, but behind the man of God, God Himself is ever standing greater than the man and overshadowing him by His infinite and glorious presence.
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Wanderers eastward, wanderers west, Know you why you cannot rest? 'Tis that every mother's son Travails with a skeleton. Lie down in the bed of dust; Bear the fruit that bear you must; Bring the eternal seed to light, And morn is all the same as night.
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All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever. Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever.
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White in the moon the long road lies.
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According to FBI statistics for 2008, only 22 percent of murder victims were killed by strangers. More than 30 percent were slain by family members, boyfriends, and girlfriends. Nearly half of all murders were committed by friends, neighbors, and casual acquaintances.
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And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art. . .
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When all else failed, you had to rely on eyeball intrumentation.
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We have confused the free with the free and easy.
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