"Morality, it could be argued, represents the way……" — Steven Levitt
"Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work, wheareas economics represents how it actually does work."
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27 Quotes by Steven Levitt
Steven Levitt has 27 quotes on this site.
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Data, I think, is one of the most powerful mechanisms for telling stories. I take a huge pile of data…
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After all, your chances of winning a lottery and of affecting an election are pretty similar. From a financial perspective,…
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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:…
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Scarcity is a captivating book, overflowing with new ideas, fantastic stories, and simple suggestions that just might change the way…
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If you own a gun and have a swimming pool in the yard, the swimming pool is almost 100 times…
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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…
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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…
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It could be argued that, in Thailand, many foreigners have come and gone, and the number of people who are…
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I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of…
— Richard Nelson Bolles
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Some have argued that confronting the threat from Iraq could detract from the war against terror. To the contrary, confronting…
— George W. Bush
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Philosophers and theologians have argued for centuries over the morality of targeted assassinations - a technique that the Israelis use…
— Eric Alterman
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I've always argued that this country has benefited immensely from the fact that we draw people from all over the…
— Alan Greenspan
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Malthus argued a century and a half ago that man, by using up all his available resources, would forever press…
— John F. Kennedy
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The citizens of America have too much discernment to be argued into anarchy. And I am much mistaken, if experience…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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If Watson and I had not discovered the [DNA] structure, instead of being revealed with a flourish it would have…
— Francis Crick
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I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Many have argued that a vacuum does not exist, others claim it exists only with difficulty in spite of the…
— Evangelista Torricelli
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We thus begin to see that the institutionalized practice of citations and references in the sphere of learning is not…
— Robert K. Merton
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