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• Often statistics are used as a drunken man uses lampposts -- for support rather than illumination.
• He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts - for support rather than for illumination.
  -- Andrew Lang...
• He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts.
  ..for support rather than illumination." Andrew Lang (1844-1912)...
• Statistics in the hands of an engineer are like a lamppost to a drunk--they're used more for support than illumination.
  -- Bill Sangster, Dean of Engineering, Georgia Tech...
• Statistics are like lampposts: they are good to lean on, but they don't shed much light.
  -- Storm P (Robert Storm-Petersen), 1882-1946, Danish black-and-white arti...
• People just don't know how to handle it if a woman uses smarts and brains rather than tits.
  -- Tracy Bonahm...
• Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
• 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. -- George Bernard Shaw...