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Quotation

One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics.


Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fate from The Conduct of Life (1860, rev.1876)

Forsooth

Twenty-six new cases of the inflammatory lung disease sarcoidosis [were seen amongst rescuers] in the first five years after 9/11. Five or fewer rescuers got sarcoidosis anually before 9/11.

New York Daily News
21 September 2007.

Actually, I like the Poles' second idea even better. Instead of re-enacting a battle, they suggested, the summiteers should re-sit advanced level mathematics. Voting weights should be based on the square roots of the member states' populations. (Pocket caclulators allowed.)

The Sunday Telegraph
24 June 2007.