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Steven D. Levitt Quote: “Consider the kind of questions that kids ask. Sure, they may be silly or simplistic or out of bounds. But kids are also relentlessly curious and relatively unbiased. Because they know so little, they don’t carry around the preconceptions that often stop people from seeing things as they are. When it comes to solving problems, this is a big advantage.”

101. “Consider the kind of questions that kids ask. Sure, they may be silly or simplistic or out of bounds. But kids are also relentlessly curious and relatively unbiased. Because they know so little, they don’t carry around the preconceptions that often stop people from seeing things as they are. When it comes to solving problems, this is a big advantage.”

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Steven D. Levitt Quote: “People are complicated creatures, with a nuanced set of private and public incentives, and that our behavior is enormously influenced by circumstances.”

102. “People are complicated creatures, with a nuanced set of private and public incentives, and that our behavior is enormously influenced by circumstances.”

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Steven D. Levitt Quote: “Have fun, think small, don’t fear the obvious – these.”

103. “Have fun, think small, don’t fear the obvious – these.”

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Steven D. Levitt Quote: “Just because you’re at the office is no reason to stop thinking.”

104. “Just because you’re at the office is no reason to stop thinking.”

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Steven D. Levitt Quote: “Government agents sardonically known as the Menstrual Police regularly rounded up women in their workplaces to administer pregnancy tests. If a woman repeatedly failed to conceive, she was forced to pay a steep “celibacy tax.”

105. “Government agents sardonically known as the Menstrual Police regularly rounded up women in their workplaces to administer pregnancy tests. If a woman repeatedly failed to conceive, she was forced to pay a steep “celibacy tax.”

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Steven D. Levitt Quote: “Correlation does not equal causality. When two things travel together, it is tempting to assume that one causes the other. Married people, for instance, are demonstrably happier than single people; does this mean that marriage causes happiness? Not necessarily. The data suggest that happy people are more likely to get married in the first place. As one researcher memorably put it, “If you’re grumpy, who the hell wants to marry you?”

106. “Correlation does not equal causality. When two things travel together, it is tempting to assume that one causes the other. Married people, for instance, are demonstrably happier than single people; does this mean that marriage causes happiness? Not necessarily. The data suggest that happy people are more likely to get married in the first place. As one researcher memorably put it, “If you’re grumpy, who the hell wants to marry you?”

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Steven D. Levitt Quote: “The data suggest that happy people are more likely to get married.”

107. “The data suggest that happy people are more likely to get married.”

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Steven D. Levitt Quote: “Human beings aren’t the most candid animals on the planet. We’ll often say one thing and do another – or, more precisely, we’ll say what we think other people want to hear and then, in private, do what we want.”

108. “Human beings aren’t the most candid animals on the planet. We’ll often say one thing and do another – or, more precisely, we’ll say what we think other people want to hear and then, in private, do what we want.”

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Steven D. Levitt Quote: “As long as you can tell the difference between a good idea and a bad one, generating a boatload of ideas, even outlandish ones, can only be a good thing.”

109. “As long as you can tell the difference between a good idea and a bad one, generating a boatload of ideas, even outlandish ones, can only be a good thing.”

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Steven D. Levitt Quote: “The market was particularly strong in Chicago, which had more than a thousand known brothels.”

110. “The market was particularly strong in Chicago, which had more than a thousand known brothels.”

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Steven D. Levitt Quote: “But wouldn’t it be nice if we all smuggled a few childlike instincts across the border into adulthood? We’d spend more time saying what we mean and asking questions we care about;.”

111. “But wouldn’t it be nice if we all smuggled a few childlike instincts across the border into adulthood? We’d spend more time saying what we mean and asking questions we care about;.”

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Steven D. Levitt Quote: “Thinking like a Freak may sometimes sound like an exercise in using clever means to get exactly what you want, and there’s nothing wrong with that. But if there is one thing we’ve learned from a lifetime of designing and analyzing incentives, the best way to get what you want is to treat other people with decency. Decency can push almost any interaction into the cooperative frame.”

112. “Thinking like a Freak may sometimes sound like an exercise in using clever means to get exactly what you want, and there’s nothing wrong with that. But if there is one thing we’ve learned from a lifetime of designing and analyzing incentives, the best way to get what you want is to treat other people with decency. Decency can push almost any interaction into the cooperative frame.”

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Steven D. Levitt Quote: “These two factors – childhood poverty and a single-parent household – are among the strongest predictors that a child will have a criminal future.”

113. “These two factors – childhood poverty and a single-parent household – are among the strongest predictors that a child will have a criminal future.”

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Steven D. Levitt Quote: “As we wrote earlier, the law of unintended consequences is among the most potent laws in existence.”

114. “As we wrote earlier, the law of unintended consequences is among the most potent laws in existence.”

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Steven D. Levitt Quote: “His best chance of doing so is to engage the public’s emotions, for emotion is the enemy of rational argument.”

115. “His best chance of doing so is to engage the public’s emotions, for emotion is the enemy of rational argument.”

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Steven D. Levitt Quote: “We arrive at the conservative figure of approximately 200,000 women in the regular army of vice.”

116. “We arrive at the conservative figure of approximately 200,000 women in the regular army of vice.”

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Steven D. Levitt Quote: “Just Like Canada, with Better Bacon.”

117. “Just Like Canada, with Better Bacon.”

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Steven D. Levitt Quote: “Los incentivos constituyen la piedra angular de la vida moderna.”

118. “Los incentivos constituyen la piedra angular de la vida moderna.”

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