Malcolm Gladwell - What the Dog Saw (2009)

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You don't start at the top if you want to find the story. You start in the middle, because it's the people in the middle who do the actual work in the world.

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The ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of small differences: because journalism cannot own up to its heavily derivative nature, it must enforce originality on the level of the sentence.

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The difference between a crime of evil and a crime of illness is the difference between a sin and a symptom.

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What does it say about a society that it devotes more care and patience to the selection of those who handle its money than of those who handle its children?

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Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head.

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The trick to finding ideas is to convince yourself that everyone and everything has a story.

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Happiness, in one sense, is a function of how closely our world conforms to the infinite variety of human preference.

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A prediction, in a field where prediction is not possible, is no more than a prejudice.

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Choking is about thinking too much. Panic is about thinking too little. Choking is about loss of instinct. Panic is reversion to instinct. They may look the same, but they are worlds apart.

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