"Ever since I learnt about confirmation bias I've started seeing it everywhere."

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Source : "WATCH: The Story of a Man Who Faked Insanity" by Jon Ronson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2013.

Jon Ronson

#Confirmation Quotes #Bias Quotes

“One cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own.”
“We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.”
“From the time I can first recall the rain falling on the red clay in Florida. I wanted to make things. When my brothers and sisters were making mud pies, I would be making ducks and chickens with the mud.”
“In all their wars against the French they [the Americans] never showed such conduct, attention and perseverance as they do now.”
“I don't have actor training myself.”
“I'm somewhat of a raptivist but I wasn't attempting to make a socio-political statement as much as I was attempting to voice for the voiceless whatever ideas that came to mind if I was in that situation.”
“Things do tend to come around when the time is right though.”
“I watch Iniesta and realise that, even at my age, I could be learning new things.”

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