"Wall Street is not being made a scapegoat for this crisis: they really did this."
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"There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity. Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower."
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"I'd say part of the appeal of Trump is that he's presenting himself as a totally certain, infallible person."
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"People in the voting booth are not purely rational creatures any more than they're purely rational creatures outside the voting booth."
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"Why isn't someone smarter than us doing this?"
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"Don't be deceived by life's outcomes. Life's outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them."
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"A tourist can't help but have a distorted opinion of a place: he meets unrepresentative people, has unrepresentative experiences, and runs around imposing upon the place the fantastic mental pictures he had in his head when he got there."
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"The arrangement bore the same relation to actual finance as fantasy football bears to the NFL."
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"At SGI board meetings... Jim Clark's face would get red and he'd start shouting that an investor and board member had cheated him and his engineers."
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"There has been this - and it's reflected in the broadcasts - this moronic use of statistics. Which has suggested to everyone who is intelligent the use of statistics is moronic."
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"Each firm held its rope; one by one, they realized that no matter how strongly they pulled, the balloon would eventually lift them off their feet."
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"The fuses had been lit and could not be extinguished. All that remained was to observe the speed of the spark, and the size of the explosions."
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"I procrastinate to a point where I'm filled with self-loathing and then I start writing. It's usually a state of self-loathing that gets me going."
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"I was gonna put him on the bus...I got tired of him talking, it was time for him to go home."
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"Jacks are home runs. So are dongs, bombs, and big flies. Baseball people express their fondness for a thing by thinking up lots of different ways to say it."
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"It's such a pain in the ass to write a book, I can't imagine writing one if I'm not interested in the subject."
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"People in both fields operate with beliefs and biases. To the extent you can eliminate both and replace them with data, you gain a clear advantage."
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"What happens when we acknowledge the sovereignty and power of God without trusting in His goodness and faithfulness? A pitcher who saw God's power behind his extremely unlikely rise to the big leagues wondered if, at any difficulty he encountered there, God might be taking his ability away."
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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 people you are continually trying to screw."
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"It is far better to keep the enemy close, by bribing him with stock options, than to have him out in the wild, foraging."
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