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If I were to ask you for example right now to go back with me and define those moments in your life that shaped you as a person and you began to reexamine them, something would happen. ↗

— James Lipton

#back #began #define #example #for example

Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining. ↗

— Sonny Liston

#dumb #look #questions #shining #sun

The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We are pilots, not servants. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#conductor #disappear #evidence #functions #himself

The next time someone uses denial of citizenship as a weapon or brandishes the special status conferred upon him by the accident of birth, ask him this: What have you done lately to earn it? ↗

— Eric Liu

#ask #birth #citizenship #conferred #denial

As it stands now, those of us who are lucky enough to be citizens by birth don't have to do much. Very little is asked of us. ↗

— Eric Liu

#birth #citizens #enough #little #lucky

If whiteness were of no particular advantage, then having a fuller color wheel of skin tones would be purely a matter of celebration. But whiteness - just a drop of it - does still carry privilege. You learn that very young in America. ↗

— Eric Liu

#america #carry #celebration #color #does

You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is. ↗

— Nastia Liukin

#ask #know #lou #mary #person

Then I grew up and fell in love, I asked my sweetheart, 'what lies ahead? ↗

— Jay Livingston

#asked #fell #grew #i #lies

It's important to understand how people perceive risk, and how that translates into investment behavior. ↗

— Andrew Lo

#how #important #into #investment #people

Maybe we should teach schoolchildren probability theory and investment risk management. ↗