"A well-wrapped statistic is better than Hitler's 'big lie'; it misleads, yet it cannot be pinned on you."

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Source : How to Lie with Statistics (p. 9)

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“The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are.”
“I never thought that I would be so attracted to television, but I don't think gigs like 'Dexter' come along too often.”
“The State is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of behavior; we destroy it by contracting other relationships, by behaving differently toward one another....We are the state, and we shall continue to be the state until we have created the institutions that form a real community and society of men.”
“All I care about is money and the city that I'm from.”
“I grew up as this little Catholic girl who just wanted to make beautiful things. I expressed myself with paint.”

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“I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.”
“I fooled you. I fooled you. I got pig iron. I got pig iron. I got all pig iron.”

Source : Song: Rock Island Line
“I like What Goes Around Comes Around for old concert tees. Oh man, I got this 'Sgt. Pepper' cartoon Beatles shirt there; it was, like, $300. I didn't even know how much it cost - I thought it was gonna be, like, $80 at most - till I got to the register and was like, 'Oh mah gawd!' Good Lord. But it's classic vintage rock, you know?”

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