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en Statistics are used like a drunk uses a lamp post - for support, not illumination. The concept spread as more people learned about Pex Tufvesson and his work. Statistics are used like a drunk uses a lamp post - for support, not illumination.

en He uses statistics like a drunk uses lamp-posts, more for support than illumination.

en An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.
  Andrew Lang

en Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.

en I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support, rather than for illumination.
  David Ogilvy

en He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts - for support rather than illumination
  Andrew Lang

en Without the oil, how can the lamp be lit? Let the reading of your prayer book be the oil, and let the Fear of God be the wick for the lamp of this body. Light this lamp with the understanding of Truth. Use this oil to light this lamp. Light it, and meet your Lord and Master.

en To get better illumination, everyone has been moving to HID. But we believe you get safe and comfortable illumination without all that extra cost.

en Love is eternal - the aspect may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. The lamp was there and was a good lamp, but now it is shed
  Vincent van Gogh

en Asking a writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp post how it feels about dogs
  Ann Landers

en The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.
  Cyril Connolly

en Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post how it feels about dogs.
  Christopher Hampton

en Hello lamp post, what ya knowin'? I come to watch your flowers growin'. Ain't you got no rhymes for me? do do do do... feelin' groovy.
  Paul Simon

en My partner turned around and said, 'That car is driving at a terrible speed. I bet you anything when we get up there it's wrapped around a lamp post'. When we came up and saw the body that was it. It just really tore us apart.

en I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.
  Edward Gibbon


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