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You don't manage a social wrong. You should be ending it.

Malcolm Gladwell

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Malcolm Gladwell
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: September 3
Journalist
Screenwriter
Sociologist
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Malcolm Timothy Gladwell
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Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.
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We need to look at the subtle, the hidden, and the unspoken.
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If a window is broken and left unrepaired, people walking by will conclude that no one cares and no one is in charge. Soon, more windows will be broken, and the sense of anarchy will spread from the building to the street on which it faces, sending a signal that anything goes.
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So the first task of a police force is not to fight crime and enforce the law. It is to establish legitimacy with the law-abiding citizenry and then fight crime and enforce the law.
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By shifting the balance away from the individual we open the door for the individual. Because we make it obvious that anyone can do it given the right circumstance.
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Change your mind about something significant every day.
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Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time.
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