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  1. Michael Lewis _ Moneyball

    The difference in Billy wasn't what had happened to him, but what hadn't. He had a life he hadn't led, and he knew it. He just hoped nobody else noticed.
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  2. Michael Lewis _ Moneyball

    If it doesn't happen, it never was going to happen. If you never did it, it wasn't there to begin with.
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  3. Michael Lewis _ Moneyball

    worth. A baseball team, of all things, was at the center of a story about the possibilities-and the limits-of reason in human affairs. Baseball-of all things-was an example of how an unscientific culture responds, or fails to respond, to the scientific method. As I say, I fell in love with a story. The story is about professional baseball and the people who play it. At its center is a man whose life was turned upside down by professional baseball, and who, miraculously, found a way
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  4. Michael Lewis _ Moneyball

    Losing shouldn't be fun. It's not fun for me. If I'm going to be miserable, you're going to be miserable.
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  5. Michael Lewis _ Moneyball

    One absolutely cannot tell, by watching, the difference between a .300 hitter and a .275 hitter. The difference is one hit every two weeks.
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  6. Michael Lewis _ Moneyball

    if you challenge the conventional wisdom, you will find ways to do things much better than they are currently done.
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  7. Michael Lewis _ Moneyball

    That's all right," says Billy. "We're blending what we see but we aren't allowing ourselves to be victimized by what we see.
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