"I do think that the standard media is controlled by the conventional wisdom about global warming. We've come to believe - from reading a lot of articles and talking to a lot of scientists - that there's another side to be heard."

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Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

Steven Levitt

#Wisdom Quotes #Reading Quotes #Believe Quotes

“Music was all over my house, and all over literally my genetic house, and my house in the literal sense. So I kind of couldn't avoid it.”

Source : Source: www.achievement.org
“A world constructed from the familiar is the world in which there's nothing to learn.”
“It has long been noticed that juries are pitiless for robbery and full of indulgence for infanticide. A question of interest, my dear Sir! The jury is afraid of being robbed and has passed the age when it could be a victim of infanticide.”
“The Holocaust only emerged in American life after Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day war against its Arab neighbours.”

Source : "The business of death" by Norman Finkelstein, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2000.
“Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is a life-long task.”
“There is never a Jewish community without its scholars, but where Jews may not be both intellectuals and Jews, they prefer to remain Jews.”

Source : Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.76, Courier Corporation
“The underlying aim of practice . .is to create certainty through the development of high-quality listening.”
“Fond of those hives where folly reigns, And cards and scandal are the chains, Where the pert virgin slights a name, And scorns to redden into shame.”

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