George W. Buck famous quotes

Statistics don't lie. It's the people who make up the statistics that lie.
-- George W. Buck

#Lying #People #Statistics

I love a good non sequitur.
-- George W. Buck

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People try to live their lives without consequences and end up living lives of no consequence.
-- George W. Buck

#Live Life #People #Trying

Man's worst enemies are boredom and discontent.
-- George W. Buck

#Men #Worst Enemy #Boredom

The universe is a really interesting place. I couldn't live anywhere else.
-- George W. Buck

#Interesting #Really Interesting #Interesting Places

You can get to everywhere from almost anywhere.
-- George W. Buck

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I have two kids in diapers and a cat whose litter box I clean out. I deal with an awful lot of crap.
-- George W. Buck

#Cat #Kids #Two

There are no dumb questions, but there are plenty of people who give dumb answers.
-- George W. Buck

#People #Giving #Dumb

When you don't know where you're at, you don't get upset you're not somewhere else.
-- George W. Buck

#Somewhere Else #Upset #Knows

Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.

The Tarot embodies symbolical presentations of universal ideas, behind which lie all the implicits of the human mind, and it is in this sense that they contain secret doctrine, which is the realization by the few of truths embedded in the consciousness of all.

Do I do as false prophets do and puff air into simulacra? Am I a Sorcerer--like Macbeth's witches--mixing truth and lies in incandescent shapes? Or am I a kind of very minor scribe of a prophetic Book--telling such truth as in me lies, with aid of such fiction as I acknowledge mine, as Prospero acknowledged Caliban.

The Bible says, 'The truth shall make you free.' But let's not forget it was Spiro Agnew who said that a good lie will keep you out of jail in the first place.

My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.

Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.

It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.

If you torture statistics long enough, they'll eventually confess the truth

no study has brought out any solid evidence that the death penalty deters crime. In fact, Amnesty reports that 'the murder rate in states which use the death penalty is twice that of states which do not, according to FBI statistics.

Training was one thing, reality another.