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Steven Levitt has 27 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Data, I think, is one of the most powerful mechanisms for telling stories. I take a huge pile of data and I…
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After all, your chances of winning a lottery and of affecting an election are pretty similar. From a financial perspective, playing the…
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Solving a problem is hard enough; it gets that much harder if you’ve decided beforehand it can’t be done.
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The key to learning is feedback. It is nearly impossible to learn anything without it.
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When people don’t pay the true cost of something, they tend to consume it inefficiently.
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The gulf between the information we proclaim & the information we know to be true is vast. In other words: we say…
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Scarcity is a captivating book, overflowing with new ideas, fantastic stories, and simple suggestions that just might change the way you live.
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If you own a gun and have a swimming pool in the yard, the swimming pool is almost 100 times more likely…
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Purity is a good mask for corruption because it discourages inquiry.
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No matter how expert you may be, well-designed checklists can improve outcomes.
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I do think that the standard media is controlled by the conventional wisdom about global warming. We've come to believe - from…
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Many of life's decisions are hard. What kind of career should you pursue? Does your ailing mother need to be put in…
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If you declare that you are naturally designed for such a diet, then first kill for yourself what you want to eat.…
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God help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and…
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What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth
— Boris Pasternak
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The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under your cudgel; but…
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Don't cudgel your brains over my little problems.
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do…
— Franz Schubert
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Information is a beacon, a cudgel, an olive branch, a deterrent--all depending on who wields it and how.
— Steven Levitt
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Faith is a personal matter, and should never be a cudgel to stifle inquiry. We tried that approach about 1,200 years ago.…
— Seth Shostak
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Grades are a problem. On the most general level, they're an explicit acknowledgment that what you're doing is insufficiently interesting or rewarding…
— Derrick Jensen
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