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There's a deep affection and respect for the Queen and the monarchy in the U. K. But Diana was an extraordinary, iconic figure and her death sparked a fierce reaction, part grief and part anger at her being taken away. It was very fraught.

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Don't be a novelist --- be a statistician. Much more scope for the imagination.

Imagination, Novelists, Scope, Statistician
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A well-wrapped statistic is better than Hitler's 'big lie'; it misleads, yet it cannot be pinned on you.

Lying, Bigs, Wells, Lie, Pinned, Misleads

The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify. Statistical terms and statistical methods are necessary in reporting the mass data of social and economic trends, business conditions, 'opinion' polls, the census. But without writers who use the words with honesty and understanding and readers who know what they mean, the result can only be semantic nonsense.

Honesty, Mean, Data, Business, Statistical

A difference is a difference only if it makes a difference.

Differences, Making A Difference, Ifs, Difference

It is dangerous to mention any subject having high emotional content without hastily saying where you are for or agin it.

Dangerous, Emotional, Having, High, Subject, Where You Are

Proper treatment will cure a cold in seven days, but left to itself, a cold will hang on for a week.

Cold, Hang, Proper, Seven, Seven Days, Week
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