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the medieval contract known as the census, which allowed one party to buy a stream of annual payments from another.
— Niall Ferguson
The government has become a mechanism for distributing largess, and your census form is your ticket.
— Tom G. Palmer
At the last census it indicated that about 22 per cent of Australians were born overseas.
— Julie Bishop
Census figures be damned: If you choose to be alone, you're destined to spend a certain amount of time wondering why.
— Caroline Knapp
A census taker once tried to test me. I let my front garden eat him.
— Jonathan L. Howard
A census taker tried to quantify me once. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a big Amarone. Go back to school, little Starling.
— Thomas Harris
The number of saintly men has not yet risen to the level where the census makes them a separate statistical category.
— George Stigler
In the United States, 97 percent of those classified by the Census Bureau as poor own a color TV.
— Peter Singer
People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are.
— Max Barry
One of the stock Sydney jokes is of the census-taker who enquires: 'How many children have you, ma'am?' 'Two living and three in Melbourne.'
— Elspeth Huxley
We didn't think taxes ought to go up. They ought to go down. We didn't think the census ought to be weakened.
— Pete Du Pont
Right and wrong are not the product of census.
— Terry Goodkind
The guest list, if there had been one, was a little like a census.
— John Steinbeck
Sampling, statisticians have told us, is a much more effective way of getting a good census.
— Rob Lowe
You can't choose between right and wrong by taking a census.
— Elizabeth Taylor
The British census of Palestine in 1922 recorded 84,000 Jews and 670,000 Arabs, of whom 71,000 were Christian, most of the remainder being Muslim.
— Lawrence Wright
