"The same set of statistics can produce opposite……" — Thomas Sowell
"The same set of statistics can produce opposite conclusions at different levels of aggregation."
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Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms temporarily united by a mysterious force called the life-principle. To the materialist,…
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Great inventions are never, and great discoveries are seldom, the work of any one mind. Every great invention is really…
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We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. And out of it we get an…
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In the technotronic society the trend would seem to be towards the aggregation of the individual support of millions of…
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Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has…
— Calvin Coolidge
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The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are…
— James F. Cooper
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Henry Blodget does occasionally have a new idea. If you're making a point about aggregation or the emptiness of modern…
— Nick Denton
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The queen of aggregation is, of course, Arianna Huffington, who has discovered that if you take celebrity gossip, adorable kitten…
— Bill Keller
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The aggregation of large fortunes is not at all a thing to be regretted.
— William Graham Sumner
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We are to see the development of the country pushed forward at an unprecedented rate by an aggregation of capital,…
— William Graham Sumner
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It is as impossible for an aggregation of finites to comprehend or exhaust one infinite as it is for the…
— Robert Boyle
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