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I know what people tell me -- that's anecdotal -- and we always say the plural of anecdote is not data necessarily, but it is a trend and what I'm hearing, but it wasn't just the attack. It was the Republican reaction to it, which was disgraceful. And that I think really the attack is horrible. – Nancy Pelosi	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I'm not, you know, blaming her for anything, but she should be thinking twice about propagating information that really has no basis as except a one-off anecdote. And that's not what science is all about. – Anthony Fauci	Found on CNN 2 years ago
There's always a desire in highly staged events like these debates especially to try to capture that human moment, it is very difficult for a candidate who has been coached for months to have three talking points and an anecdote to then at the end of the debate, while fully mentally exhausted, relate something that is often actually awkward. – Joe Brettell	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Now, every other day we have phone calls, we shoot the breeze, tell jokes, I tell her some anecdote I read on the internet. The case in Canada made my bonds deeper with my daughter. – Ren Zhengfei	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The free pen, prone to pour out the suggestions of artless affection, vivid imagination, or domestic anecdote, is as much woman's especial instrument as the needle. – Letitia Elizabeth Landon	added by Madeleine Quinn 7 years ago
Anecdote and emotion do not change the data. – Billy Dunn	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
I think it's an important question and I don't think it's a historical anecdote. I don't think it's something that's a hypothetical question. – Rand Paul	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The statement of [Sen. Rand] Paul would create anxiety because he's a doctor, he's a respected senator and there is no evidence that I'm aware of that a vaccine causes mental retardation, if he has that evidence he should come forward and let the scientific community do something about it. You cannot scare people by anecdote. – Lindsey Graham	Found on CNN 9 years ago
One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography. – William Ellery Channing	added by anonymous 10 years ago
In conclusion, there is a marvelous anecdote from the occasion of Russell's ninetieth birthday that best serves to summarize his attitude toward God and religion. A London lady sat next to him at this party, and over the soup she suggested to him that he was not only the world's most famous atheist but, by this time, very probably the world's oldest atheist. 'What will you do, Bertie, if it turns out you're wrong' she asked. 'I mean, what if--uh--when the time comes, you should meet Him What will you say' Russell was delighted with the question. His birght, birdlike eyes grew even brighter as he contempalated this possible future dialogue, and then he pointed a finger upward and cried, 'Why, I should say, 'God, you gave us insufficient evidence.' ' – Al Seckel	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The plural of anecdote is data. – Ben J. Wattenberg	added by anonymous 14 years ago

I know what people tell me -- that's anecdotal -- and we always say the plural of anecdote is not data necessarily, but it is a trend and what I'm hearing, but it wasn't just the attack. It was the Republican reaction to it, which was disgraceful. And that I think really the attack is horrible.

– Nancy Pelosi

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I'm not, you know, blaming her for anything, but she should be thinking twice about propagating information that really has no basis as except a one-off anecdote. And that's not what science is all about.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There's always a desire in highly staged events like these debates especially to try to capture that human moment, it is very difficult for a candidate who has been coached for months to have three talking points and an anecdote to then at the end of the debate, while fully mentally exhausted, relate something that is often actually awkward.

– Joe Brettell

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Now, every other day we have phone calls, we shoot the breeze, tell jokes, I tell her some anecdote I read on the internet. The case in Canada made my bonds deeper with my daughter.

– Ren Zhengfei

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The free pen, prone to pour out the suggestions of artless affection, vivid imagination, or domestic anecdote, is as much woman's especial instrument as the needle.

– Letitia Elizabeth Landon

added by Madeleine Quinn
7 years ago

Anecdote and emotion do not change the data.

– Billy Dunn

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

I think it's an important question and I don't think it's a historical anecdote. I don't think it's something that's a hypothetical question.

– Rand Paul

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The statement of [Sen. Rand] Paul would create anxiety because he's a doctor, he's a respected senator and there is no evidence that I'm aware of that a vaccine causes mental retardation, if he has that evidence he should come forward and let the scientific community do something about it. You cannot scare people by anecdote.

– Lindsey Graham

Found on CNN
9 years ago

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

– William Ellery Channing

added by anonymous
10 years ago

In conclusion, there is a marvelous anecdote from the occasion of Russell's ninetieth birthday that best serves to summarize his attitude toward God and religion. A London lady sat next to him at this party, and over the soup she suggested to him that he was not only the world's most famous atheist but, by this time, very probably the world's oldest atheist. 'What will you do, Bertie, if it turns out you're wrong' she asked. 'I mean, what if--uh--when the time comes, you should meet Him What will you say' Russell was delighted with the question. His birght, birdlike eyes grew even brighter as he contempalated this possible future dialogue, and then he pointed a finger upward and cried, 'Why, I should say, 'God, you gave us insufficient evidence.' '

– Al Seckel

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The plural of anecdote is data.

– Ben J. Wattenberg

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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