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“A bad temper in a man is preferable to a man without a temper,” Madame Chiang had once explained to her sisters.


“I do not represent public opinion: I represent the public. There is a wide difference between the two, between the real interests of the public and the public’s opinion of those interests.”23”
― Unreasonable Men: Theodore Roosevelt and the Republican Rebels Who Created Progressive Politics
― Unreasonable Men: Theodore Roosevelt and the Republican Rebels Who Created Progressive Politics
“A bad temper in a man is preferable to a man without a temper,” Madame Chiang had once explained to her sisters.”
― A Force So Swift: Mao, Truman, and the Birth of Modern China, 1949
― A Force So Swift: Mao, Truman, and the Birth of Modern China, 1949

“The answer lies in a phenomenon called regression toward the mean. That is, in any series of random events an extraordinary event is most likely to be followed, due purely to chance, by a more ordinary one.”
― The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
― The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives

“How many things there are that I do not want. —SOCRATES, CIRCA 425 B.C.”
― The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
― The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
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