"Purity is a good mask for corruption because……" — Steven Levitt
"Purity is a good mask for corruption because it discourages inquiry."
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27 Quotes by Steven Levitt
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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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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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The data don't lie: a Chicago street prostitute is more likely to have sex with a cop than to be…
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More Corruption Quotes
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one of 747 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of…
— Richard Armour
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The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police.
— Julian Assange
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You can't take money from the taxpayers out of the treasury to give it to pay off your political donors.…
— Michele Bachmann
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He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard…
— Samuel Adams
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It's not just spending, it's not just taxes, it's not just corruption, it is progressivism, and it is in both…
— Glenn Beck
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The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
— Georges Bernanos
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder…
— Conrad Black
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We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
— Aesop
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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually…
— David Brin
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No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
— Jacob Bronowski
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Big government conservatives are spending trillions and wasting billions. Republicans are no longer the party of fiscal conservancy, but the…
— Sherrod Brown
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