"Worldviews are more a mental security blanket than a serious effort to understand the world"

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Source : Bryan Caplan (2011). “The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies”, p.116, Princeton University Press

Bryan Caplan

#Effort Quotes #World Quotes #Serious Quotes

“If something is being done on a secret basis in national security, that's a great reason for elected officials to not talk about it. And that's a great way to shirk accountability for it with the public.”
“I did not want to be an actor because my whole family did it-going into the family business was the last thing I wanted to do.”
“To be a good musician, you need to give people what they want, what they need.”
“We are unutterably alone essentially, especially in the things most intimate and most important.”
“We have our own internal version of Klout. We do rate people in this way - their effectiveness on social media. Tying social into a performance measurement works. The productivity of a sales who has an effective social media presence is 3x an employee who is not active on the web.”
“I did an episode of 'Frasier' with my friend Kelsey Grammer once.”
“It's too much pressure. You have to think match by match and moment by moment or it drives you to distraction. I'm tired of all the talk about it. Everyone is obsessed with it...If I was the type of person who had tennis, tennis, tennis all the time and I went to bed and ended up dreaming about tennis, I would go nuts.”
“What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.”

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