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Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.

~Charles Duhigg

Topics: Between Calculated Calculated Risk Decision-Making Dividing Lies Line Loss Profit Reckless Risk

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Government and other scientists have identified hundreds of chemicals that are linked to diseases in small concentrations and that are unregulated in drinking water or policed at limits that still pose serious risks.

~Charles Duhigg

Topics: Chemicals Diseases Drinking Drinking Water Government Hundreds Identified Limits Linked Other Pose Risks Scientists Serious Small Still Water

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Monica Besra, a Bengali woman from a remote Indian village, was reportedly suffering from a malignant ovarian tumor when she went, in 1998, to a hospice founded by Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity. Nuns at the mission reportedly placed a medallion with Teresa's image on Besra's abdomen, and the tumor disappeared.

~Charles Duhigg

Topics: Bengali Charity Disappeared Founded Image Indian Mission Missionaries Monica Mother Nuns Placed Remote She Suffering Tumor Village Woman

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For decades, activist shareholders were an entertaining, but largely ignored, Wall Street sideshow. Disgruntled investors would attend annual meetings to harangue executives, criticize strategies - and protest that their complaints were being ignored.

~Charles Duhigg

Topics: Activist Annual Attend Being Being Ignored Complaints Criticize Decades Entertaining Executives Ignored Investors Largely Meetings Protest Shareholders Strategies Street Wall Wall Street Were Would

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Students in school cheat not to get the 'A,' but to avoid the 'C.'

~Charles Duhigg

Topics: Avoid Cheat Get School Students

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In the 1970s, New York City defaulted on its debt, and yes, the consequences were painful. Enrollment plummeted at City University campuses, which until then had offered free education. Seven thousand police officers were laid off. Crime skyrocketed. Services for the poor disappeared.

~Charles Duhigg

Topics: City Consequences Crime Debt Disappeared Education Enrollment Free Had Laid New New York New York City Off Offered Officers Painful Police Police Officers Poor Services Seven Then Thousand University Until Were Which Yes York 1970S

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Since cowardice must occur at a time and place where an enemy either has already appeared or may yet turn up, servicemen in peacetime - and ordinary civilians - can breathe a sigh of relief. If you are yellow-bellied back home, you're not technically a coward.

~Charles Duhigg

Topics: Appeared Back Breathe Civilians Coward Cowardice Either Enemy Home May Must Occur Ordinary Place Relief Servicemen Sigh Since Technically Time Turn Up Where You

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A huge amount of success in life comes from learning as a child how to make good habits. It's good to help kids understand that when they do certain things habitually, they're reinforcing patterns.

~Charles Duhigg

Topics: Amount Certain Certain Things Child Good Good Habits Habits Help How Huge Huge Amount Kids Learning Life Make Patterns Success Things Understand

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The biggest moment of flexibility in our shopping habits is when we have a child, because all of your old routines go out the window, and suddenly a marketer can come in and sell you new things.

~Charles Duhigg

Topics: Because Biggest Child Come Flexibility Go Habits Moment New New Things Old Our Out Routines Sell Shopping Suddenly Things Window You Your

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There are systems called zero discharge emission systems that would prevent any pollution from making it into the water or the air.

~Charles Duhigg

Topics: Air Any Discharge Making Pollution Prevent Systems Water Would Zero

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: Unknown

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