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People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.

~Malcolm Gladwell

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I don't want a door bell. I don't want anyone ringing my door bell... seems to be intrusive. They can call me on their cell phones.

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I don't understand, given the constraints physicians have in doing their job and the paperwork demanded of them, why people want to be physicians. I think we've made it very, very difficult for them to perform their job. I think that's a shame.

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A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.

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For some small number of people, a parental loss appears to be, ultimately, a desirable difficulty - again, not a large number.

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If you are going to do something truly innovative, you have to be someone who does not value social approval. You can't need social approval to go forward. Otherwise, how would you ever do the thing that you are doing?

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I remember as a kid watching one of the Olympic games, and I was cheering for a big track athlete. He was the favorite to win, and he lost. I realized in that moment the pain he felt was so much greater than the pain that those who never thought they were going to win would have felt had they lost.

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I am far more distress-avoidant than I am joy-seeking.

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Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.

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In the government's eyes, the Branch Davidians were a threat.

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Author

Born: September 3rd, 1963

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