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Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out.

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[Norden] said, with the Mark 15 Norden bombsight, he could drop a bomb into a pickle barrel at 20,000 feet.
The issue isn't the accuracy of the bombs you have, it's how you use the bombs you have - and more importantly,…
Shortly after the birth control pill was approved for public distribution, one woman wrote to John Rock, its inventor, "You should be…
The people at the top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.
For every romantic possiblity, no matter how robust, there exists at least one equal and opposite sentence, phrase, or word capable of…
We vary greatly in the natural advantages that we've been given. The world's not fair
The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.
Instinct is the gift of experience. The first question you have to ask yourself is, 'On what basis am I making a…
Radio stations have constructed a narrow door[way], and that's because they don't understand how complex and paradoxical our snap judgments are. It's…
Living a long life, the conventional wisdom at the time said, depended to a great extent on who we were-that is, our…
Often a sign of expertise is noticing what doesn't happen.
I've been in auditions without screens, and I can assure you that I was prejudiced. I began to listen with my eyes,…

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