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Malcolm Gladwell
“We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for.”
Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Malcolm Gladwell
“...If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. (151)”
Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

Steven D. 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.”
Steven D. Levitt, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

Oscar Wilde
“Do you smoke?

Well, yes, I must admit I smoke.

I'm glad to hear of it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind.”
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

Albert Einstein
“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
Albert Einstein

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