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Listening to what people were saying wasn't even important. But it was important to look as if you were listening to what people were saying. Actually, listening to what people are saying, to me, interferes with looking as if you were listening to what people are saying.

— Errol Morris

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I am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular.

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