#statistic

It stands, essentially, for the application of increased energy to the efforts already undertaken by my ministry since 1934 with the results shown in the above statistics. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

#already #application #efforts #energy #essentially

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#contract #eating #few #habit #show

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#intelligent #intelligent person #mark #moved #person

The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic. ↗

— Joseph Stalin

#man #millions #statistic #tragedy

Only 38 per cent of players in the Premier League are English; that is a damning statistic. Soon, the England manager will have to go scouting for players in the Championship - and when I say 'soon' I mean the next four or five years, perhaps even for the next World Cup. ↗

— Glenn Hoddle

#championship #cup #damning #england #english

A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic. ↗

— Joseph Stalin

#humanity #life #media #statistics #tragedy

Nature has established patterns originating in the return of events, but only for the most part. New illnesses flood the human race, so that no matter how many experiments you have done on corpses, you have not thereby immposd a limit on the nature of events so that in the future they could not vary. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#leibniz #regression #statistics #experience

The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#always #appears #certainty #everyday #guise

Recently released government economic statistics covering 2010, the first year of real recovery from the financial collapse of 2008, found that fully 93 percent of additional income gains coming out of the recession went straight into the wallets and purses of the top 1 percent. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#collapse #coming #covering #economic #financial