Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.
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Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.
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He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts -- for support rather than for illumination.
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Statistics are like a drunk with a lampost: used more for support than illumination.
quote by Winston Churchill
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He uses statistics like a drunk uses lamp-posts, more for support than illumination.
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He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts - for support rather than for illumination.
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An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.
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I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics.
quote by Mark Twain
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The statistics of life out there and the statistics of intelligent beings and advanced civilization is a certainty, the way I look at it. that It has not been accepted, because we've been in an anthropocentric era.
quote by Story Musgrave
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Never preach a sermon without a text from the Bible, a text containing the theme which you can elaborate. The text is the best proof in support of your argument. A sermon without a text is an argument without a proof.
quote by Isaac Mayer Wise
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If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.
quote by William Godwin
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There has been this - and it's reflected in the broadcasts - this moronic use of statistics. Which has suggested to everyone who is intelligent the use of statistics is moronic.
quote by Michael Lewis
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I presumed the president was being truthful until a series of events undercut that confidence.
quote by Bob Graham
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We cannot win this war on terror if people are undercutting us. And one way to undercut us is to empower Iran.
quote by Lindsey Graham
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But obviously as television began, it so undercut movies that he was trying to think of a way to combine seeing these special things, and the fact that people were just captivated by the magic box.
quote by Bob Balaban
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We also never undercut representatives' prices. A representative will always be able to sell the discounts in our core business, which are not offered at retail. So it's never more advantageous to buy there.
quote by Andrea Jung
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It is the Constitution of the United States that has been undermined, undercut, and is under attack. It is the American people's liberties that is in jeopardy. That is why I wrote 'Losing America.'
quote by Robert Byrd
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Only Two Fools Will Enjoy An Endless Argument
Advice.
Whether accepted or not.
If you do something for someone...
Do it and let it go.
Without making reservations,
In anticipated expectations.
Advice.
Whether accepted or not.
Listen to those you believe to be fools.
There is much to learn...
In the avoidance of ignorance.
But let it flow from the lips first.
Any interruptions introduces an argument.
And when was the last time anyone won an argument,
With a fool?
Only two fools will enjoy an endless argument!
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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We do not support the man. We do not support the individual. We support the idea of independent revolution in the Western Hemisphere, free from American intervention.
quote by Lee Harvey Oswald
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Airlines go in the long run at the competition to reason. For the passenger the competition is good, because each competitor tries to undercut the other one.
quote by Niki Lauda
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
quote by Carl Sagan
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