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Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge. – Nate Silver

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Were not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information – and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise. – Nate Silver

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A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pursuing the truth, but that doesnt work. Objectivity requires belief in and a commitment toward pursuing the truth – having an object outside of our personal point of view. – Nate Silver

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Truth
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I love South American food, and I havent really been down there. I really need a vacation. – Nate Silver

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For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be. – Origen

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Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you. – Princess Diana

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I do believe states rights was a sound doctrine that got hijacked by some unsavory customers for a while – like, 150 years or so. Im professionally obliged to believe that knowledge is better than ignorance, but some kinds of forgetting are OK with me. – John Shelton Reed

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One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises. – Chanakya

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God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason. – Dag Hammarskjold

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Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken. – Orson Rega Card

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