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The truth is that the United States doesn't need, and shouldn't have, a debt ceiling. Every other democratic country, with the exception of Denmark, does…

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Auto repair, piloting, skiing, perhaps even management: these are skills that yield to application, hard work, and native talent. But forecasting an…
Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are…
It's a familiar truism that at any one moment, financial markets are dominated by either fear or greed. But the healthiest markets…
Bubbles and crashes are textbook examples of collective decision making gone wrong. In a bubble, all of the conditions that make groups…
If small groups are included in the decision-making process, then they should be allowed to make decisions. If an organization sets up…
Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise.
Groups are only smart when there is a balance between the information that everyone in the group shares and the information that…
But, if recent history has taught us anything, it’s that self-regulation doesn’t work in finance, and that worries about reputation are a…
Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently…
This intelligence, or what I'll call "the wisdom of crowds," is at work in the world in many different guises. It's the…
The fact that cognitive diversity matters does not mean that if you assemble a group of diverse but thoroughly uninformed people, their…
One key to successful group decisions is getting people to pay much less attention to what everyone else is saying.

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Coffee, according to the women of Denmark, is to the body what the Word of the Lord is to the soul. — Isak Dinesen
I travel Europe every couple of weeks. I just came back from London, Holland and Denmark. Every nation on this planet has… — Montel Williams
I feel like giving myself a pat on the back. We can create history tonight. We can bid goodbye to 10 years… — Helle Thorning-Schmidt
...Denmark should be a green and sustainable society with a visionary climate and energy policy...The answer to these challenges lies in the… — Unknown Author
Denmark is sadly a hellish place if you happen to be a pig, but the brioche and fruits that tower on the… — Steven Morrissey
The cartoonists treated Islam the same way they treat Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism and other religions. And by treating Muslims in Denmark as… — Flemming Rose
I'd rather be voted 'the sexiest man in Denmark' than 'the ugliest man in Denmark'. — Mads Mikkelsen
With a record of 75 fights and 6 losses, some of the losses were very questionable including Brian Nielsen when we fought… — Larry Holmes
My wife is Danish and we go to Denmark a couple of times a year. — Ted Shackelford
Shakespeare wrote great poetry and preposterous plays. Who really cares, for example, which petty tyrant rules Milan? Or who succeeds to the… — Edward Abbey
English is, from my point of view as an Americanist, an ethnicity. And English literature should be studied in Comparative Literature. And… — Paula Gunn Allen
As Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, had said in Shakespeare's immortal words, 'I must be cruel only to be kind. — Pranab Mukherjee

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