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"It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics."
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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."
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"It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics."
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"Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination."
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"I believe in the discipline of silence and could talk for hours about it."
Discipline

"My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity."
Expression

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything."
Change

"The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office."
War

"Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes."
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"One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't."
Wisdom

"Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing-a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces."
Mortality

"If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do."
Nothing

"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life."
Philosophy

"The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post."
Love
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