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The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.

— Malcolm Gladwell Malcolm Gladwell in: Pamela Paul (2014)

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It's those who lie outside ordinary experience who have the most to teach us.

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