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• All policy interventions in social problems produce the intended effect, if the research is carried out by those implementing the policy or their friends.
  -- James Q. Wilso...
• According to the National Crime Survey administered by the Bureau of the Census and the National Institute of Justice
  it was found that only 12 percent of those who use a gun to resist assault are injured, as are 17 percent of those who use a gun to resist robbery....
• Honesty is the worst policy (is this MR policy?)
• Quote #227 As Freeman Dyson (who was in operations research for the RAF during the war, and was incidentally living in London during the heyday of the V-2) put i
  At that time in London, those of us who were seriously engaged in the war were very grateful to Wernher von Braun....
• We've got a carrot and stick policy, and the carrot is, if he pulls out, he doesn't get the stick.
  -- James Baker, U.S Secretary of State, 12/5/90, about Saddam Hussei...
• APHASIA: Loss of speech in social scientists when asked at parties, "But of what use is your research?
• The second best policy is dishonesty.