“It is easy to lie with statistics. It is hard to tell the truth without it.”
Andrejs Dunkels (1939–1998)
cited in: Andrea Varsavsky, Iven Mareels, Mark Cook (2010). Epileptic Seizures and the EEG. p. 89
“A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape.”
“A Lie,” p. 65
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “A Stone and a Word”
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