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Thirdly-but not lastly-there was the bias toward what people saw with their own eyes, or thought they had seen. The human mind…
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Some coaches believed they could judge a player's performance simply by watching it. In this they were deeply mistaken. The naked eye…
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In Japan, mothers insist on achievement and accomplishment as a sign of love and respect. Thus to fail places children in a…
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When you're trying to create a career as a writer, a little delusional thinking goes a long way.
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He's a machine for competitive balance, ... Yes, the money is in New York. Yes, the money is in his hands. But…
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My client loved risk. Risk, I had learned, was a commodity in itself. Risk could be canned and sold like tomatoes.
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It is the nature of being the general manager of a baseball team that you have to remain on familiar terms with…
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One absolutely cannot tell, by watching, the difference between a .300 hitter and a .275 hitter. The difference is one hit every…
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Above all, recognize that if you have had success, you have also had luck — and with luck comes obligation. You owe…
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Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture.
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Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book.
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I don't think there is a national pasttime. Watching TV is a national pasttime. Really. If there is a national pasttime, it…
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Markets have built in inefficiencies, serious inefficiencies which are well known.
— Noam Chomsky
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The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency.
— Eugene McCarthy
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South Africa does not have a poverty problem. Poverty is a result of denialism of the way corruption taxes poor people, the…
— Mamphela Ramphele
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Government-to-government foreign aid promotes statism, centralized planning, socialism, dependence, pauperization, inefficiency, and waste. It prolongs the poverty it is designed to cure.…
— Henry Hazlitt
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It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks of false…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Anarchy [is] necessarily consequent to inefficiency.
— Thomas Jefferson
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The big corporation is not in the least remarkable for efficiency; it is only too big to be blamed for its inefficiency.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Every good cause is worth some inefficiency.
— Paul Samuelson
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Given the inefficiencies of what D.C. laughingly calls the `criminal justice system,' I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of…
— Ron Paul
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There are only two qualities in the world: efficiency and inefficiency; and only two sorts of people: the efficient and the inefficient.
— Josh Billings
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Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.
— Greg Bear
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The Jews caused the war, the Jews caused the outbreak of thieving and robbery all over the country, the Jews caused the…
— Henry Ford
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