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I always find that statistics are hard to follow and impossible to digest. The only one I can ever remember is that if all the people who go to sleep in church were laid end to end they would be a lot more comfortable.

- Mrs. Robert A. Taft (nee Martha Wheaton Bowers)

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If all the economists in the world were laid end to end they'd still point in different directions.

If all the economists in the world were laid end to end they'd be a lot happier.