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Quotations of selected author
Evan Esar
1899 - 1995. American humorist.
1. "[Statistics] The science that can prove everything except the usefulness of statistics."
source: "Esar's Comic Dictionary"
categories: Science and Technology
2. "[Statistics] Fiction in its most uninteresting form."
source: "Esar's Comic Dictionary"
categories: Science and Technology -:- Reality and Imagination
categories: Life and Death
4. "The girl with a future avoids a man with a past."
categories: Woman and Man
5. "Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary."
categories: Oration and Silence
6. "Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them."
categories: Memory -:- Various
7. "Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it."
categories: Family and Loneliness -:- Woman and Man
8. "Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment."
categories: Optimism and Hope
9. "Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose."
categories: Human
categories: Richness and Money -:- Education
11. "A bacteriologist is a man whose conversation always start with the germ of an idea."
categories: Science and Technology
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