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"Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything."
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"But by showing us live coverage of every bad thing happening everywhere in the world, cable news makes life seem like it's just an endless string of disasters - when, for most people in most places today, life is fairly good."
Life
"I didn't view myself as attacking the boss. I viewed my boss at ESPN as the publisher and president of ESPN."
Criticism
"It was Orwellian. I completely disappeared, and disappeared the same day. It was by early that evening when the Times story ran. That was an overreaction. All human beings under pressure behave poorly."
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"I'm a smart guy, I know the history of this issue and why people care about it."
History
"And then ESPN fired me. I did not think that was a fitting punishment."
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"I don't think there are many larger lessons to be found in sports."
Sports
"Stereotypes involving Christian identity, Christian persecution is so far back in history now that no one fears it being revived, unless you live in China, I guess."
History
"Inevitably, these sorts of things are going to come back to blow up in people's faces."
People
"For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker."
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"I think the thing that I most appreciate now is that stereotypes involving Jewish identity activate fears of persecution that exist in the present day."
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"I was the dork in high school who sang musical numbers up and down the hallways."
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"Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next."
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"It's - as opposed to tape where you have a magnetic tape that's excited by frequencies that you hit, digital was a process where musical sounds are transferred to numbers and stored as numbers."
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"We find them smaller and fainter, in constantly increasing numbers, and we know that we are reaching into space, farther and farther, until, with the faintest nebulae that can be detected with the greatest telescopes, we arrive at the frontier of the known universe."
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"Early numbers are always wrong."
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"We rest our case on the production numbers."
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"I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done."
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"We don't know what we're writing until it just comes out. We don't sit around crunching numbers."
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"When two elements combine and form more than one compound, the masses of one element that react with a fixed mass of the other are in the ratio of small whole numbers."
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"There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else."
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