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Statistics are like lampposts: they are good to lean on, but they don't shed much light.


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W. P. KINSELLA I don't believe in the afterlife.
W. P. KINSELLA The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like bird...
W. P. KINSELLA Find something that thrills you, and when you finish reading it for enjoyment, read it again line by...
W. P. KINSELLA A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one.
J. P. MORGAN When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
J. P. MORGAN Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do ...
J. P. MORGAN If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.
J. P. MORGAN No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty...
J. P. MORGAN I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.
J. P. DONLEAVY To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.
J. P. DONLEAVY Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
J. P. DONLEAVY If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change, in the ...
JOHN P. KOTTER Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season,...
P. T. BARNUM One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening.
FRANKLIN P. JONES Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jur...
P. J. O'ROURKE To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as...
P. T. BARNUM