I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic.
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And given that there's been probably a ten-fold amount of information about terrorism through the media than there has about climate change; I think that's quite an interesting statistic.
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Americans pay up to 1000 percent more to fill their prescriptions than consumers in other countries - that is an alarming statistic.
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Baseball fans are junkies, and their heroin is the statistic.
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A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
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A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic
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A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
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One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.
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A single death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.
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