"Data, I think, is one of the most powerful mechanisms for telling stories. I take a huge pile of data and I try to get it to tell stories."

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Steven Levitt

#Powerful Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Data Quotes

“You may be more prodigal of time than of money.”
“Incredible that liberals aren't more concerned about the monopoly of information in South Dakota.”
“Energy always flows either toward hope, community, love, generosity, mutual recognition, and spiritual aliveness or it flows toward despair, cynicism, fear that there is not enough, paranoia about the intentions of others, and a desire to control.”
“Art has arrived at the paradox that tradition itself requires the occurrence of radical attacks on tradition.”
“Strength, strength it is that we want so much in this life, for what we call sin and sorrow have all one cause, and that is our weakness. With weakness comes ignorance, and with ignorance comes misery.”
“I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.”
“I've never done heroin, but I totally understood what would drive people to that distraction-to need that so much.”
“History is full of examples of people compromising their beliefs in order to keep themselves alive.”

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