"In daily life, reality gives us material incentives to restrain our irrationality. But what incentive do we have to think rationally about politics?"

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Source : Bryan Caplan (2008). “The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies (New Edition)”, p.206, Princeton University Press

Bryan Caplan

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“The model of publishing is changing and its happening right now, but most publishers are so frightened, they just dont know how to embrace it.”
“The best things can't be told.”
“One thing about being a children's poet or a versifier, is that there is a large market for your wares. These things really made the rounds. I would meet people and they'd quote my poems to me. It's great.”
“A good director has to be a captain - he has to work with a lot of people every day.”
“And now you're off to Port Caynn. Watch them sailor lads. They'll have your skirts up and a babe in your belly afore you know what you're about." "Everyone keep warning me about sailors," I complained. "Why can't someone tell the sailors to stay clear of me?" Granny snorted. "Oh, you're the fierce one now! Just take care no one else catches you unawares and knocks you on the nob!”
“I made a penny for each paper delivered every day, plus 2 cents for Sunday papers. I had 120 customers. For a 10-year-old kid in the 1940s, that was a lot of money.”
“I agree with Sophocles: the greatest luck is not to have been born - but, as the joke goes on, very few people succeed in it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others.”

Source : Joseph Priestley (1780). “The theological and miscellaneous works of Joseph Priestley”, p.372

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