"Statistics is the art of lying by means of figures."

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Source : Marriage at the Crossroads Chapter II (p. 20)

Wilhelm Stekel

#Art Quotes #Lying Quotes #Mean Quotes

“The difference between playing the stock market and the horses is that one of the horses must win.”

Source : Joey Adams (1968). “Encyclopedia of Humor”
“Never ask a favor until you are drawing your last breath; and never forget one.”
“The nurse knocked softly on the door of the examining room and wheeled in a shiny silver tray displaying neatly arranged instruments of torture.”

Source : Jennifer Echols (2009). “The Ex Games”, p.168, Simon and Schuster
“...I think finding that room to make pictures that don't jump off the wall as, or detonate as dramatic, either in lighting or in form or in composition or in subject matter, but more ordinary, that's the challenge.”
“The real key to Jack's [Nicklaus] success was his fantastic ability to score. His drives sometimes went into the rough, but he could plow the ball out of the tallest grass and get it on the green; bad lies simply didn't affect him as they did the others. Jack also got tremendous height with his one-iron and two-iron, which meant that he could stop them better than his rivals.”
“There's a transparency revolution sweeping the world. The more you can have transparency of payments, the more you'll be able to follow the money and the more you'll be able to see that payments for mineral rights in poor countries actually go to the people who need it, and don't get put into a kleptocrat's pocket. Transparency is terribly important for us.”
“The crew, like all Italian crews, was generous, warm, and enthusiastic.”
“Testing, we will never do enough of it.”

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