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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9f02e50 | No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact. | Bertrand Russell | ||
| 16ca47e | When we live in a system, we absorb a system and think in a system. --JAMES W. DOUGLASS | T. Colin Campbell | ||
| 520ea32 | Two men who differ as to the ends of life cannot hope to agree about education. | Bertrand Russell | ||
| 99b4ddd | Power may be defined as the production of intended effects. | Bertrand Russell | ||
| 133d990 | Most people, at a crisis, feel more loyalty to their nation than to their class. | Bertrand Russell | ||
| fd9ca43 | The universe is what it is, not what I choose that it should be. | Bertrand Russell | ||
| 596ff54 | Whatever we know without inference is mental. | Bertrand Russell | ||
| 9d22370 | I should say that the universe is just there, and that is all. | Bertrand Russell | ||
| 51c3318 | Too little liberty brings stagnation, and too much brings chaos. | Bertrand Russell | ||
| b698d78 | Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination. | Bertrand Russell | ||
| a4d7a0a | Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality. | Bertrand Russell | ||
| 0c23077 | I feel like that intellectual but plain-looking lady who was warmly complimented on her beauty. | Bertrand Russell | ||
| b405adc | We need a science to save us from science. | Bertrand Russell | ||
| e6bbb17 | Beliefs," things we hold to be true but which may not be easily verified." | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| 6b93160 | Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate. | Bertrand Russell | ||
| c10135b | Solen skiner, det ar varmt och vackert, jorden kunde vara en ljuvlig plats att leva pa. Klockan elva idag forklarade England Tyskland krig. | Astrid Lindgren | ||
| 93b8038 | and just stared at the children with her big cow-eyes. To | Astrid Lindgren | ||
| f521c31 | Pippi stroking his back. 'Bosh, that was a true fib,' she added. 'But if it was true, how could it be a fib? Perhaps when all's said and done, he really has been a butler in Sourabaya, after all! Well, if that's so, I know who's going | Astrid Lindgren | ||
| efa5dae | e scendeva velocemente lungo le colonnine della veranda e di tanto in tanto il cavallo sporgeva il muso | Astrid Lindgren | ||
| c55de0f | sat | Astrid Lindgren | ||
| 40f2bd0 | Choose your parents wisely. | Bertrand Russell | ||
| 7103cef | As turiu suspigti kartu su pavasariu, kitaip sprogsiu. Klausyk! Juk ir tu girdi pavasari! | gamta gyvybė pavasaris ronija | Astrid Lindgren | |
| adf53d0 | Det ar skont att man saknar fantasi att forestalla sig allt lidande. | Astrid Lindgren | ||
| 1949032 | When bad predictions are unpunished, what incentive is there to stop making them? | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| 93736ee | I'm going to bed now, Lovis! Not to sleep. But to think and to curse, and woe better anyone who disturbs me! | sleep | Astrid Lindgren | |
| c019a4f | What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices. | Bertrand Russell | ||
| 0c941d2 | when there are a lot of people willing and able to do a job, that job generally doesn't pay well. This is one of four meaningful factors that determine a wage. The others are the specialized skills a job requires, the unpleasantness of a job, and the demand for services that the job fulfills. | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| 7d98ad9 | repository | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| 7547e8c | penultimate | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| 1f677ad | aficionados | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| ef4e60c | bohemian, | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| bd7bc68 | This is an encouraging finding on two fronts. It means that young black children have continued to make gains relative to their white counterparts. It also means that whatever gap remains can be linked to a handful of readily identifiable factors. The data reveal that black children who perform poorly in school do so not because they are black but because a black child is more likely to come from a low-income, low-education household. A typ.. | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| 476a205 | Great news, right? Well, not so fast. First of all, because the average black child is more likely to come from a low-income, low-education household, the gap is very real: on average, black children still are scoring worse. Worse yet, even when the parents' income and education are controlled for, the black-white gap reappears within just two years of a child's entering school. By the end of first grade, a black child is underperforming a .. | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| 298bca2 | offer an environment that is simply not conducive to learning. | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| 7357c2c | Black students are hardly the only ones who suffer in bad schools. White children in these schools also perform poorly. In fact, there is essentially no black-white test score gap within a bad school in the early years once you control for students' backgrounds. But all students in a bad school, black and white, do lose ground to students in good schools. Perhaps educators and researchers are wrong to be so hung up on the black-white test s.. | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| 37bc2f0 | harbinger | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| 5357a76 | tangential | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| 12dda1f | connote | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| 99b85ae | egregious | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| 5f34062 | panache. | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| 27e5758 | demigod, | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| f11f8c6 | syllogism: | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| 119791e | An incentive is simply a means of urging people to do more of a good thing and less of a bad thing. | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| 1262d62 | There are three basic flavors of incentive: economic, social, and moral. Very often a single incentive scheme will include all three varieties. Think about the anti-smoking campaign of recent years. The addition of a $3-per-pack "sin tax" is a strong economic incentive" | Steven D. Levitt |