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" Success makes you less intimidated by things. "
Nate Silver
Things
You
Intimidated
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" When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen. "
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Little
Strange
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Work
Play
" I have the same friends and the same bad habits. "
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Habits
Bad
Bad Habits
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Just
News
" There's always the risk that there are unknown unknowns. "
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Unknowns
Unknown
Always
" The Protestant Reformation had a lot to do with the printing press, where Martin Luther's theses were reproduced about 250,000 times, and so you had widespread dissemination of ideas that hadn't circulated in the mainstream before. "
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Where
Lot
Ideas
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Books
Before
Luxury
" If you're keeping yourself in the bubble and only looking at your own data or only watching the TV that fits your agenda then it gets boring. "
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Boring
Data
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Way
Want
" I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt. "
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Politics
People
Much
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Looking
Politics
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Foreign Policy
Event
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More
Uncertainty
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Mistake
You
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You
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