Whoever said that a picture is worth a thousand words was no mathematician.

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And although it may be true that a picture is worth a thousand words, it takes only seven words to express that thought.

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The trouble is, that while a picture is worth a thousand words, and the words it evokes are beyond the control of the person in the picture.

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It's a well known fact that a picture is worth a thousand words and a special event in Belfast is about to reinforce that age old adage.

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If a picture is worth a thousand words, an infographic is worth an awful lot of data points and readers to get an idea of a long text within seconds.

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"A picture is worth a thousand words, " she said.

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They say a picture is worth a thousand words.

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If a picture is worth a thousand words, then walking out to the rough ground where the biomass is growing (between the stream and the good soil reserved for corn) will tell the story much better than anything I can say in a meeting.

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If a picture is worth a thousand words, the Allosphere is an appropriate response to living in a world where, as Google chairman Eric Schmidt likes to say, we create as much data as in all conversation, ever, in a couple of days.

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