A statistician made a few calculations and discovered that since the birth of our nation more lives had been lost in celebrating independence than in winning it.
– Curtis Billings
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- The minute a statistician steps into the position of the executive who must make decisions and defend them, the statistician ceases to be a statistician. – W.E. Deming
- Being lost doesn’t always have to be a bad thing. After all, when Columbus got lost, he discovered America. – Catherine Rossi
- I discovered that Thailand was one of those countries, like Sri Lanka and India, where memory of past lives used to be commonplace. Go back a few generations, and you find people talking about earlier lives with total certainty. – John Burdett
- He lives long that lives well; and time misspent is not lived but lost. – Dr. Thomas Fuller
- In the over two centuries since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, millions of Americans have bravely served our nation in uniform so that all generations can continue to enjoy those same liberties. – Doc Hastings
- Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost. – Erol Ozan
- This is life we’ve been given, made to be lived out, so live out loud. – Steven Curtis Chapman
- We mutually pledge to each other our lives,our fortunes, and our sacred honour. Declaration of Independence. – Thomas Jefferson
- We mutually pledge to each other our lives,our fortunes, and our sacred honour. Declaration of Independence. – Thomas Jefferson
- When modern woman discovered the orgasm, it was, combined with modern birth control, perhaps the biggest single nail in the coffin of male dominance. – Eva Figes