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… I confronted the challenge of placing a value on human life by calculating different amounts of compensation for each and every victim. The law required that I give more money to the stockbroker, the bond trader, and the banker, than to the waiter, the policeman, the fireman, and the soldier at the Pentagon.
Kenneth Feinberg, What Is the Value of a Human Life?
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One in eight U.S. high school teachers presents creationism as a valid alternative to evolution.
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Wired Science
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I would just have it all in a very low-cost index fund from a reputable firm, maybe Vanguard.
- Warren Buffett
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Imagine that the person receiving the email you’re composing receives 1,000 other message each day more or less identical to yours. What would you do to distinguish yours from the others? What change would make your email amazingly easy to deal with and not insane? Does the content of your email belong someplace else? Like an SMS, a face-to-face meeting — or maybe even in an angry, venting screed that you
never send.
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Merlin Mann
