"The statistics requested respecting the number of crimes that have been solved by tracing the firearm back to the registered owner are not kept at this time and are therefore not available."

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Source : House of Commons Debates, www.ourcommons.ca. May 8, 1996.

Herb Gray

#Numbers Quotes #Statistics Quotes #Crime Quotes

“If you can't take a punch, you should play table tennis.”

Source : "Football's most hyperbolic week ever" by Harry Pearson, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2009.
“The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.”

Source : Emma Goldman, Candace Falk (2008). “Emma Goldman”, p.78, University of Illinois Press
“If you think of ice cream, it (Helvetica) is a cheap, nasty, supermarket brand made of water, substitutes and vegetable fats. The texture is wrong and it leaves a little bit of a funny aftertaste.”
“We praise times past, while we times present use; Yet due the worship which to each we give.”
“The Noisiest buzz in the industry lately has been over the emerging use of cable TV systems to provide fast network data transmissions using a device called a cable modem. But the likelihood of this technology succeeding is zilch.”

Source : "The Looming Cable Modem Fiasco". PC Magazine, September 12, 1995.
“[On Lisa Kudrow:] She's like the best kind of jazz there is. You don't know what note she's going to hit and it's always a surprise.”
“A rich man is one who isn't afraid to ask the salesperson to show him something cheaper.”
“No other practice will make one more attractive in conversation than to be well-read in a variety of subjects.”

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