The people I know who seem to make unusual efforts at rationality, are unusually honest, or, failing that, at least have unusually bad social skills.
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Honesty: Beyond Internal Truth (June 2009)Eliezer Yudkowsky
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Clinton’s an unusually good liar. Unusually good.
Bill Clinton
It is unfortunate that we try to solve the simplest questions cleverly, and therefore make them unusually complicated. We should seek a simple solution.
Anton Chekhov
It kind of reminds... I could use the Third Reich, the Big Lie. You say something over and over and over and over again, and people will believe it, and that's their strategy... A hot summer has nothing to do with global warming. Let's keep in mind it was just three weeks ago that people were saying, "Wait a minute; it is unusually cool."
James Inhofe
The study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order.
John Maynard Keynes
In the sect – fairly large and yet unusually choice – of Austenians or Janites, there would probably be found partisans of the claim to primacy of almost every one of the novels.
George Saintsbury
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