#statistic

One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic. ↗

— Joseph Stalin

#million #statistic #tragedy

I can prove anything by statistics except the truth. ↗

— George Canning

#except #i #i can #prove #statistics

We have a VA hospital back home in St. Louis. Like many of our colleagues, we hear continued concerns about the access and the service. I have seen a statistic that more than 60,000 veterans today are waiting more than 6 months for an appointment at a VA hospital. ↗

— Russ Carnahan

#access #appointment #back #colleagues #concerns

Two years later, I went to the University of Minnesota from which I was on leave for several years during the war as a member of Statistical Research Group at Columbia University. ↗

— George Stigler

#columbia university #during #group #i #later

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts - for support rather than for illumination. ↗

— Andrew Lang

#illumination #lamp #man #posts #rather

This is a frightening statistic. More people vote in 'American Idol' than in any US election. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

#american idol #any #election #frightening #idol

The statistics show that when you've done something for so long, it'll either be, yeah, you're slowing down, or someone's doing it better. But physically, I feel great. More than that, it's mental and spiritual. ↗

— Steven Lopez

#doing #done #down #either #feel

First of all, this whole idea of this one percent versus the 99 percent, it's a false statistic.There's nobody that is wealthy saying, let's go get the people that aren't. First of all, there's no versus. He's creating a false class warfare in a country where there is no class structure. ↗

— Jon Lovitz

#class warfare #country #creating #false #first

After some minor pieces of theoretical study that I worked on, a student in my statistical mechanics class brought to my attention a problem in polyelectrolytes. ↗

— Rudolph A. Marcus

#attention #brought #class #i #mechanics

And that's what's beautiful to me, is he did not become a victim of it, and he didn't become a statistic, he just kind of kept on marching through, no matter what people threw at him. ↗

— Mary Stuart Masterson

#become #did #him #just #kept