"If you want to get people to believe something really, really stupid, just stick a number on it."

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Source : Charles Seife (2010). “Proofiness: How You're Being Fooled by the Numbers”, p.8, Penguin

Charles Seife

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“I work hard. I like to practice. I like to win. I want to be the best.”
“In this day and time you can't even get sick; you are strung-out! Well by God, I'll tell you something, friend: I have never been strung-out in my life, except on music!”
“I shop all the time, basically every day, whether it's online or in every city we go to.”
“As an actor, I felt I couldn't compete. I wasn't as cute as the leading man; I wasn't as brilliant as Robin Williams.”
“So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person.”

Source : Associated Press interview, 1997.
“There was one time I wrestled two boys and I beat them both! They weighed a lot less than I did and I think they didn't want to hurt a girl, so I don't know if I really won - I'd like to think I did.”
“What is beautiful is right: what is unbeautiful is wrong.”
“Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 'translatable' into any cultural idiom.”

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