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We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. – Erich Fromm




The cure for “materialism” is to have enough for everybody and to spare. When people are sure of having what they need they cease to think about it. – Henry Ford



In the field of marketing and advertising, statistics are like bikinis; they reveal a good deal that is both interesting and instrutive, but they usually conceal what is really vital. – Harry Henry



How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt? – Harry S. Truman



It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics. – Fletcher Knebel



A statistician is one who collects data and draws confusions. – Hyman Maxwell Berston

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts – for support rather than for illumination. – Andrew Lang