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When you write about sports, you're allowed to engage in mischief. Nothing is at stake.

~Malcolm Gladwell

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I'm just trying to say that it should reassure us that the inevitable traumas of being human do end up producing some good. Otherwise, the human condition is overwhelmingly depressing.

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If you're last in your class at Harvard, it doesn't feel like you're a good student, even though you really are. It's not smart for everyone to want to go to a great school.

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If Harvard is $60,000 and University of Toronto, where I went to school, is maybe six. So you're really telling me that education is 10 times better at Harvard than it is at University of Toronto? That seems ridiculous to me.

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If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.

~Malcolm Gladwell

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If my books appear to a reader to be oversimplified, then you shouldn't read them: You're not the audience!

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Part of me thinks that innovation, real innovation in health care delivery, needs to happen from the bottom to the top.

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When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy. Why can't there be a stairway? At least make it as easy to exercise as it is to not exercise. It's in society's interest for me to take the stairs.

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I have never read any Tolstoy. I felt badly about this until I read a Bill Simmons column where he confessed that he'd never seen 'The Big Lebowski.' Simmons, it should be pointed out, has seen everything. He said that everyone needs to have skipped at least one great cultural touchstone.

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My mother read me biblical stories at night.

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Author

Born: September 3rd, 1963

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