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" Crime shapes how we think about the world; it shapes social decisions that we make; it shapes our base of knowledge. But we don't talk about it intelligently. "

Bill James

Knowledge

Talk

Decisions

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" Some people give themselves over to their most evil desires, and those people becomes evil. But in general, it's reductive to think of evil as something foreign and separate from the rest of us. Evil is part of everyone. We all have the capacity to commit evil acts. "

" I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were. "

" We don't genuinely need more literary geniuses. One can only read so many books in a lifetime. "

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Only

Lifetime

" Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will charge $35 for aspirin. "

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Medicine

Miracles

" I try to take large, general questions that are difficult to resolve and break them down into small, very specific questions that have clear answers. "

" Any of us are capable of doing things we're not proud of under the wrong kind of stresses. "

" If you go to a party populated by the NPR crowd and you start talking about JonBenet Ramsey, people will look at you as if you had forgotten your pants. "

" When people disagree with you, what you ultimately have to do is persuade people to agree with you - period. "

" When I was a small kid, I grew up in the newspapers. "

" In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example. "

" Professionalism in law has brought us the O.J. Simpson case in lieu of justice. "

Bill James

Professionalism

Law

" Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because some people like them. It's the same with baseball statistics. "

" It's extremely damaging to a fair trial to have people reaching judgment about the case in the newspapers and on the radio before the facts are heard in a case. "

" I do have a family, and obviously I spend as much time as I can with them. Though even when I'm with my family, my mind tends to drift toward baseball. "

" Do people really believe there's something different about the eyes of murderers? "

" I think among the population at large, people are openly fascinated with crime and don't feel any shame over it. It's only the opinion-makers and the 'opinion elites' who turn up their noses. "

Bill James

Crime

Feel

" Crime stories show us the part of people's lives they try to keep hidden. "

" The human race has been in a long struggle to eliminate murder. And we will succeed. "

" You know one little way in which baseball changes us? We don't even think twice about Japanese names anymore. You know what I mean? "