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Steven Levitt Quotes: Scarcity is a captivating book, overflowing with new ideas, fantastic stories, and simple suggestions that just might change the way you live.
         

Scarcity is a captivating book, overflowing with new ideas, fantastic stories, and simple suggestions that just might change the way you live.


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When people don’t pay the true cost of something, they tend to consume it inefficiently.



Solving a problem is hard enough; it gets that much harder if you’ve decided beforehand it can’t be done.

Solving a problem is hard enough; it gets that much harder if you’ve decided beforehand it can’t be done.



Purity is a good mask for corruption because it discourages inquiry.

Purity is a good mask for corruption because it discourages inquiry.



Data, I think, is one of the most powerful mechanisms for telling stories. I take a huge pile of data and I try to get it to tell stories.

Data, I think, is one of the most powerful mechanisms for telling stories. I take a huge pile of data and I try to get it to tell stories.



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Don’t judge someone’s choices without first knowing their reason.



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I know very few Americans, though I like the way they think. They think big.



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