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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.

Regardless of what happens to energy prices and interest rates, homebuilding is going to happen and that's going to affect the national statistics but not by a huge amount ... it sort of disappears in the context of the national economy.

Statistics are one thing, but at the same time, when the game is on and it's kickoff time, you never know how anyone is gong to react. You have older quarterbacks. Peyton Manning hasn't won a Super Bowl; he's an experienced quarterback. It doesn't really matter, it just depends on how you play that day.

Statistics can be misleading. The only stat that counts is the score at the end of the game.

Statistics do lag changes in the economy. I believe we will be migrating to one economy that will be a new economy as many companies that have been around for years embrace some of the newer technology.

Statistics don't lie. I'm not going to disguise the fact that we need a poacher. The problem we have got is obvious.

Statistics greatly underestimate dropout rates because they rely on school principals who weren't checking on them. When students disappeared, the principals just wrote them as transfers.

Statistics have revealed that the country is not able to cope with the rising number of workers employed in government jobs.

Statistics have shown demand was reduced on a year-on-year basis in September and October. Traders are concerned that they may end up seeing slower demand again in November.

Statistics point to what happened in this game. We had problems finishing plays where we had the size advantage, and it was painful at the free-throw line.

Statistics received indicate that in just 30 days we lost some 1162 people on our roads. This means the country has been losing 39 people every day to car accidents. Even viewed against war scenarios such as the current war in Iraq and Afghanistan, the casualties on our roads come out worse.

Statistics show that African-Americans have been disproportionately affected by HIV/AIDS since the epidemic's beginning. If we increase the dialogue and get everyone involved, we will be able to galvanize our communities to take action and stop the spread of HIV/AIDS.

Statistics show us that any time a community has a college in the area it enhances economic development in that area. Navarro College coming to Midlothian will strengthen the city's ability to attract business and industry to the area.

Statistics tell us that if you don't follow regulations, then you will have an accident. In order to achieve this type of record, everyone has to work together. ? We need to be very conscious of where we're at with this milestone. ? This is not something that's easily achieved. It takes a tremendous amount of effort, and a tremendous change in what you're doing (in order to make it safe).

Statistics tell us that when you have 10 medical incidents ? then you're going to have a lost-time accident. We're up to 13 or 14 medical incidents, so we're overdue for a lost-time accident, according to statistics. That's why we must be more cautious than ever before, because statistics tell us we're overdue for one.

Our middle linebacker's an All-Pro and he had (90) tackles. That shows you what kind of team we have. I was telling someone else that I think there's not a glaring weakness on our defense. Before, if a corner had 150 tackles, obviously he was picked on. We don't have that. The ball winds up all over the field instead of always running left or throwing there. That has made everyone even as far as statistics go.

I think what's going to be key going forward will be the tradeoff (in the economic news) between the statistics on employment and statistics on inflation.

Last week the indications from the meetings and from some of the Fed speakers was: Yes, we're concerned about tightening too much, but everything is data-dependent. The interpretation from the statistics today appears to be that the Fed is not going to stop.

I think the statistics bear out its negative impact and harmful impact on families. We feel an obligation to stand on their behalf. When you see something that is so detrimental to the family, I don't think it should be surprising that people of faith are united.

Just because there aren't official reports doesn't mean attacks don't happen. This sort of attack needs to be classified as a hate crime, so statistics can be compiled, but nobody does that.

It all begins with the takeaway/giveaway. Anytime you go four games and don't get a takeaway and you're minus-8, it really doesn't make a whole lot of difference what else you do. Statistics prove that it's awful hard to win when you don't get a takeaway.

It is clear that bird flu will bring appalling statistics to the economies. The epidemic must not be allowed to evolve into a pandemic, this is the most important thing.

I think they use statistics and figures that are misleading, and sometimes they are just plain erroneous.

Our birth rates nationally peak in late summer and early fall. People spend a lot more time indoors in winter, especially in the north, because it's cold outside. The statistics don't lie.

I think if you look at the statistics objectively, you're much safer on board a cruise ship that any community in the United States. We have good security programs in place.

I think the one thing that baseball has always tried to maintain was the integrity because our game, more than any other game, statistics are so important. I think that right now that is called into question, and it's a shame in Barry's case.

It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of leading causes of statistics

I think we have become insane with the attention we put on single indicators. The problem here is not Statistics Canada. The problem is how people use the survey.

I think we would need to take a look at where the games are played, particularly in situations where there would be one play between two conference members with identical records. The statistics in all circumstances would favor the home team. So, if two teams with 9-7 records played each other once, chances are the home team is going to win that game. We would have to continue to dig in terms of trying to come up with some sort of tiebreaker that would allow us to come up with some determination as to which is the better team.

Well, right now, we just can't make mistakes like that. Statistics show that you lose the turnover battle, you have a very small chance of winning. It's proven itself the last two ball games.

We have this backdrop of the Fed raising rates and a growing fear that there's more to come based on economic statistics. What will determine how we do is what those statistics look like over the next few months.

We'll make a tough call here in the next three or four days, ... We have a couple of days to kick the ball on the practice field. We have compiled a lot of statistics and numbers on all their kicks and we'll make that call in the next couple of days.

We don't have any hard statistics yet on all the damage done by Hurricane Katrina. Apparently the damage was minimal in the major cotton-producing areas of Mississippi and Louisiana.

We don't have any statistics of how many times that would reach to the moon. But that is one for every man, woman and child in the state.

We'll do better next season. We'll have statistics and up-to-date standings on our Web site. And we'll probably have 16 teams in the playoffs. I think 24 teams this season is too many.

We're watching the daily statistics in terms of retail confidence and housing,

You have to embrace and welcome the role that you're given. A lot of people on the outside always said to me, 'You need to have statistics to say you're a great player.' I didn't buy into that. The only statistics I looked at were wins and losses. Whether I was catching two passes in a game or clearing the way for Jerome, I just wanted to win. There was a year when I had 18 receptions and six went for touchdowns (in '97). I made plays when I had to. I just don't think you can make a fair judgment on a tight end based solely on numbers. I'm sure Heath feels the same way about this, because from what I've heard, he's an unselfish kid who wants to be a winner.

We haven't been a very good team this year when major guys are missing from the other team. They don't keep statistics for that but I know we haven't been very good.

When the company first got started, we were in my mom and dad's house, in 1973, and the office was in my bedroom. My dad started teaching me about statistics when I was in fourth grade, things I wouldn't see in school until college. I've always found this stuff fascinating.

We've had eight new players on this team this year. I've been real happy with our leadership, especially from Brad Peterson (nine points on Saturday). He's sacrificed a lot of his personal statistics to make us a better team. A lot of our guys have done that.

We have statistics that in election years the political elite and hopefuls always splash out huge amounts of money on sacrificial animals to distribute meat among the needy.

We use statistics to analyze the transaction records of every customer.

Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.

Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don't happen.

We have a profile on how users typically move through the real estate process on our platform and we also have statistics for our clients on how the advertisers can generate the best results.

You see, but you do not observe.

You know my methods. Apply them.

Human life is proverbially uncertain; few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company.

Price statistics show clearly that instability in raw-material prices is a prime cause of instability of other prices.

No matter what the statistics say there is always a way.

Trivia rarely affect efficiency. Are all the machinations worth it, when their primary effect is to make the code less readable?

You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic.

He would like to start from scratch. Where is scratch?

Action will furnish belief,-but will that belief be the true one? This is the point, you know.

According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless.

Once you can reproduce a phenomenon, you are well on the way to understanding it.

It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation.

Training was one thing, reality another.

When all else failed, you had to rely on eyeball intrumentation.

Those meaningless and unanswerable questions the minds keep returning to, like a tongue exploring a broken tooth.

...while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.

Economists state their GNP growth projections to the nearest tenth of a percentage point to prove they have a sense of humor.

So strong is the power of superstition that even though we know that we have been reverencing a sham, yet still we hesitate to admit the validity of our new-found convictions.

Could it be that there were other things more desirable than cold logic and undefiled brain power?

Even theories must have foundations.

Subconscious minds are no less fallible than the objective mind.

Those are good statistics either way. I'm glad we do have a good away record because that means we have a chance on the road, but we'd rather have home-field for the first round.

The picture is not nearly as bleak as the statistics may portray. They virtually all get one inspection a year.

When you see statistics (like that), you hopefully can exploit them.

Normal is enormously susceptible to swinging with the gusts of politics and history. Disguised as scientific and fixed, it is subjective and protean. That is why I used the word normative above, a term derived from statistics, simply meaning what most people do.

The expertise offered by John Jay College in this area is proving very valuable to us. The analysis and validation of international crime statistics from our member countries helps us to ensure that this material is of high quality, reliable and useful.

The fact that there was no counterbalancing evidence or statistics to go against the so-called statistics that Gilbert was providing, I think that it was certainly very slanted in that respect.

The crisis began with the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, which offered voting statistics and automatically proclaimed the Liberal candidate

That 95 per cent. fail of those who start in business upon their own account seems incredible, and yet such are said to be the statistics upon the subject.

We should not be pushing out figured when the facts are in the opposite direction.

In Our Underachieving Colleges, [Derek] Bok acts as both diagnostician and healer, wielding social-science statistics and professional studies to trace the etiology of today's illnesses and to recommend palliative treatments for what he has discovered.

All ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.

In the patient who succumbed, the cause of death was evidently something which was not found in the patient who recovered; this something we must determine, and then we can act on the phenomena or recognize and foresee them accurately. But not by statistics shall we succeed in this; never have statistics taught anything, and never can they teach anything about the nature of the phenomenon.

The goal of scientific physicians in their own science ... is to reduce the indeterminate. Statistics therefore apply only to cases in which the cause of the facts observed is still indeterminate.

The most crazed religious fanatic argues in more calm and reasoned tones than liberals responding to statistics on concealed-carry permits.

The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts... Seek simplicity and distrust it.

The customer is usually wrong, but statistics indicate that it doesn't pay to tell him so

We knew the economy slowed down, and there was evidence from some of the monthly price statistics that inflationary pressures diminished during the period.

Have you noticed that all the news, statistics, strategies about unemployment are provided by those who are employed? As soon as you are unemployed you cease to exist ...

According to new statistics, Pope Francis is the most talked about person on the Internet. And not only that, he has the most viewed profile on Christian Mingle.

Many writers claim that nearly all crime is caused by economic conditions, or in other words that poverty is practically the whole cause of crime. Endless statistics have been gathered on this subject which seem to show conclusively that property crimes are largely the result of the unequal distribution of wealth. But crime of any class cannot be safely ascribed to a single cause. Life is too complex, heredity is too variant and imperfect, too many separate things contribute to human behavior, to make it possible to trace all actions to a single cause.

You have to challenge shots; you have to do that. Nationally, the statistics are (that teams shoot) 36 percent when shots are challenged and 47 percent when shots are not challenged. You most definitely want to challenge shots.

In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.

If you torture statistics long enough, they'll eventually confess the truth

Statistics is the first of the inexact sciences.

Everything tries to be round.

There are some women out there who are just going to look better with a mustache: that's statistics.

over 85% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date? Of course they're out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.

History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.

The thing with high-tech is that you always end up using scissors.

We are looking forward to (today). We have elected to do it the old fashioned way and really concentrate on fundamentals. Looking at the team statistics last year, one area we really need to continue to improve is shooting. We know that it's never easy when there is a new staff. It's not an easy road. We know there will be some bumps in the road, but you will see a team that will play hard.

It may be meaningless, but at least it's a gesture.

The statistics of mines that need clearance are staggering but the truth is it's a challenge that is absolutely doable.

Couples go in with this sort of virgin idealism, that the statistics don't apply to them. Then the realities of life set in.