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The economic analysis of law has had many good ideas. It's had one great idea -like, world-transforming idea, I think. And the idea is, when you're stuck, minimize the sum of the costs of decisions and the costs of errors.
Cass Sunstein / Legal Scholar
Analysis
Good Ideas
Great Idea
Stuck
Good Great Law
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Usually, the first thing I do when I wake up is I start working, so I often won't start the day by reading anything because I like to minimize my 'commute' as much as possible. I wake up, open my laptop and start working in bed.
Daniel Mallory Ortberg /
Wake Up
Day Start Wake Up
Commute
First Thing
Laptop
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The First Thing
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Alignment of business strategy and risk appetite should minimize the firm's exposure to large and unexpected losses. In addition, the firm's risk management capabilities need to be commensurate with the risks it expects to take.
Jerome Powell /
Business
Alignment
Appetite
Exposure
Firm
Management
Risk
Risk Management
Strategy
Unexpected
Addition
Capabilities
Expects
Large
Losses
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We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them.
Christopher Reeve / Actor
Health
Time
Community
Disease
Each Day
Impossible
Injury
Moving
Symptoms
Trials
Vocabulary
Closer
Eliminate
Longer
Minimize
Move
Scientific
Unsolvable
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Take corruption, right? Take political corruption. Europe, the Anglosphere, northern Europe, has been kind of a miracle zone - and I'm not saying there's no corruption, of course - but in being somehow able to minimize political corruption.
Amy Wax /
Europe
Zone
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Somehow
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Like solo sailors venturing into the Southern Ocean, climbers are seduced by risk. The desire to push to a summit or scale a rock face is so strong that they consciously or subconsciously minimize safety precautions drilled into their brains.
Charles Duhigg / Writer
Ocean
Safety
Solo
Summit
Scale
Brains
Climber
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Push
Seduced
Subconsciously
Venturing
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I tried to minimize exposure to technology before two. After that, I've taught the kids to use devices in moderation. It's important for them to learn how to control their behaviour themselves. Simply restricting access makes them want it more.
Anne Wojcicki / Biologist
Behaviour
Devices
Exposure
Moderation
Minimize
Restricting
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Every company needs to have a skunkworks, to try things that have a high probability of failing. You try to minimize failure, but at the same time, if you're not willing to try things that are inherently risky, you're not going to make progress.
Nolan Bushnell / Entrepreneur
Failure
Failing
Needs
Probability
Progress
Trying
Willing
Try
Same
High
Inherently
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Same Time
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A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do. But you'll also want to minimize the use of oils generally, because while olive oil and other vegetable oils are better for your heart than chicken fat, they are as fattening as animal fats.
Neal Barnard / Physician
Diet
Animal
Fats
Heart
Oil
Olive Oil
Vegan Diet
Heart Your Better
Fat
Chicken
Generally
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Olive
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When I'm writing a novel, which is what I like to write, I get up early, sit zazen, make a pot of green tea. I wear wrist cuffs to keep my wrists warm and minimize irritation from extended contact with the surface of my desk. I sit down and write.
Ruth Ozeki / Novelist
Contact
Green
Irritation
Warm
Desk
Extended
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Wrist
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For better or worse, that is true with any new innovation, certainly any new technological innovation. There's many good things that come out of it, but also some bad things. All you can do is try to maximize the good stuff and minimize the bad stuff.
Steve Case / Entrepreneur
Bad Stuff
Good Things
Innovation
Stuff
Trying
Good Better Bad
Maximize
Minimize
Worse
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It is time to stop debating whether the Internet is an effective tool for political expression and instead to address the much more urgent question of how digital technology can be structured, governed, and used to maximize the good and minimize the evil.
Rebecca Mackinnon / Blogger
Digital
Digital Technology
Evil
Expression
Urgent
Address
Time Good Technology
Debating
Effective
Governed
Maximize
Minimize
Structured
Tool
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One side of the American psyche wants smaller government, lower taxes, and more choices for individuals, even if those choices increase risk. The other wants a strong social safety net to protect the weakest among us, even if it costs more to minimize risk.
Ron Fournier / Journalist
Choices
Protect
Risk
Safety
Safety Net
Smaller Government
Among
Individuals
Lower
Lower Taxes
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Net
Psyche
Smaller
Weakest
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If you can't afford organic food and are unable to grow your own, it's crucial to wash all inorganic produce very carefully to minimize the toxins you consume. Soak everything for 20 minutes in water with vinegar and salt or water with fresh lemon juice and salt.
Suzanne Somers / Actress
Crucial
Juice
Organic Food
Produce
Salt
Vinegar
Afford
Carefully
Consume
Fresh
Inorganic
Lemon
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Organic
Soak
Unable
Wash
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You're trying to improve every year. And you're trying to make improvements on what you learn about yourself, when you're successful or struggle. You try to minimize those stretches. And you realize what you do when you're successful, and you try and lengthen those.
Christian Yelich /
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Cognitive therapy is a fast-acting technology of mood modification that you can learn to apply on your own. It can help you eliminate the symptoms and experience personal growth so you can minimize future upsets and cope with depression more effectively in the future.
David D. Burns / Author
Depression
Cognitive
Modification
Mood
Personal Growth
Symptoms
Therapy
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Cope
Effectively
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Cameras help to minimize collateral damage, and very often, without a camera a missile cannot fire. Certainly, without a camera a drone can't function, which means that the very ways in which we wage war are determined in part by how cameras work and whether they work at all.
Judith Butler / Philosopher
Cameras
Collateral
Damage
Determined
Function
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Missile
Wage
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I'm a guy that tries to eat right. I try to keep my body right. I try to do all the right things. But like everybody else, I have flaws. I slip up. I eat the wrong things sometimes. I have cheat days. I think I make mistakes just like everybody else, but I try to minimize them.
Malcolm Brogdon /
Wrong Things
Everybody Else
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Right Things
Slip
Tries
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An antenna collects radiation from a desired direction incident upon an area, called its collecting area, and focuses it on a receiver. An antenna is normally designed to maximize its response in the direction in which it is pointed and minimize its response in other directions.
Robert Woodrow Wilson /
Antenna
Collecting
Radiation
Receiver
Response
Designed
Directions
Incident
Maximize
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Normally
Pointed
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When FDR died in 1945, he was still paralyzed from the waist down. After he died, his portrait was put on the dime. Through his illness, he went out of his way to minimize his difficulties. Of the thousands of pictures taken of him, only two show him in a leg brace or a wheelchair.
David Oshinsky / Historian
Died
Illness
Paralyzed
Taken
After
Show
Fdr
Him
His Way
Leg
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Pictures
Portrait
Thousands
Waist
Wheelchair
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True confidence is firmly planted in reality. To grow your confidence, it's important to do an honest and accurate self-assessment of your abilities. If there are weaknesses in your skill set, make plans for strengthening these skills and find ways to minimize their negative impact.
Travis Bradberry /
Accurate
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Strengthening
Firmly
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I'm diligent about using eye drops and ointment before bed, which seems to minimize the frequency and severity of corneal abrasions. When I wake up now with an abrasion, I know I need to stay calm and effectively treat the pain. I can usually get back to sleep within a couple of hours.
Shannon Bream / Journalist
Calm
Diligent
Frequency
Severity
Stay Calm
Drops
Effectively
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While designing, sewing and cutting patterns for clients, my mother was always telling me to make sure the upper part of the body was balanced with the lower part, an A-line skirt to minimize hips or shoulder pads if a client was smaller on top. I was training my eye to create balance.
Anastasia Soare /
Balance
Cutting
Eye
Hips
Pads
Patterns
Sewing
Training
Mother Always Me
Always Me Body
Client
Designing
Lower
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Shoulder
Skirt
Smaller
Telling
Upper
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Mainstream American society finds it easiest to be tolerant when the outsider chooses to minimize the differences that separate him from the majority. The country club opens its doors to Jews. The university welcomes African-Americans. Heterosexuals extend the privilege of marriage to the gay community.
Malcolm Gladwell / Journalist
American Society
Differences
Doors
Gay Community
Mainstream
Majority
Privilege
University
Chooses
Club
Country Club
Easiest
Extend
Finds
Jews
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Opens
Outsider
Tolerant
Welcomes
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Your to-do list should include items that need to be accomplished for the month, the week, and each day. You must then ask yourself how much time you need to block off to achieve each task. Time blocking allows you to minimize distractions and to maximize your efficiency as you work to complete this list.
Clay Clark /
Accomplished
Achieve
Block
Each Day
Efficiency
Items
Ask
Time Work Yourself
Month
Blocking
Complete
Distractions
Each
Work Time Yourself
Off
How Much
How Much Time
Include
List
Maximize
Minimize
Task
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Basically if you study entrepreneurs, there is a misnomer: People think that entrepreneurs take risk, and they get rewarded because they take risk. In reality entrepreneurs do everything they can to minimize risk. They are not interested in taking risk. They want free lunches and they go after free lunches.
Mohnish Pabrai / Investor
Lunch
Not Interested
Reality
Thinking
Entrepreneurs
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Rewarded
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If you do too much acting in a lead part in a feature film where you're 40 ft. high, it's rather unattractive. You can see the acting. And it's actually the right thing to do to bring as much of yourself, I believe, to the part as you possibly can - to minimize the amount of theatrical stuff that you need to do.
Hugh Grant / Actor
Amount
Right Thing
Theatrical
Too Much
Unattractive
Believe I Believe Yourself
Feature
Feature Film
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Possibly
The Right Thing
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To minimize market uncertainty and achieve the maximum effect of its policies, the Federal Reserve is committed to providing the public as much information as possible about the uses of its balance sheet, plans regarding future uses of its balance sheet, and the criteria on which the relevant decisions are based.
Ben Bernanke / Economist
Committed
Criteria
Federal Reserve
Maximum
Plans
Providing
Relevant
Uncertainty
Minimize
Policies
Regarding
Reserve
Sheet
Uses
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Some people mistake grit for sheer persistence - charging up the same hill again and again. But that's not quite what I mean by the word 'grit.' You want to minimize friction and find the most effective, most efficient way forward. You might actually have more grit if you treat your energy as a precious commodity.
Reid Hoffman / Entrepreneur
Charging
Commodity
Efficient
Friction
Grit
Mistake
Persistence
Sheer
Effective
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Precious
Treat
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The reflex of police officers, when making the decision whether to use force and on what scale, must not be a result of instinctive bias, but on objective and discernible factors. As the enforcers of law and order, they have to adhere to the letter of the law and minimize the taints of biases and life long social conditioning.
Letitia James /
Bias
Conditioning
Factors
Law And Order
Officers
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Scale
Instinctive
Letter
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Objective
Police Officers
Reflex
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Those who drafted and ratified the Second Amendment were undoubtedly aware that the right they were establishing carried a risk of misuse, and States have considerable latitude to regulate the exercise of the right in ways that will minimize that risk. But States may not seek to reduce the danger by curtailing the right itself.
Thomas Hardiman /
Danger
Latitude
Misuse
Second Amendment
Amendment
Carried
Considerable
Drafted
Establishing
Seek
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Reduce
Regulate
Undoubtedly
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When I was president, I announced and I still maintain that I can live with Roe v. Wade. I did everything I possibly could as president under that ruling, which I don't think ought to be changed, to minimize the need for abortions. I think every abortion is a result of a horrible series of errors on the part of people involved.
Jimmy Carter / 39Th U.s. President
Abortion
Errors
Horrible
Ought
People
Ruling
Series
Thinking
Wade
Announced
Maintain
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Possibly
Roe
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Injecting CO2 into an underground reservoir would certainly change the local environment and thus affect the organisms that live there. Some will thrive, and others will suffer. While we should minimize such impacts, they cannot be avoided completely. The same happens when one plows a field, builds a house or a road, or waters a lawn.
Klaus Lackner /
Avoided
Co2
Environment
Organisms
Thrive
Affect
Builds
Impacts
Lawn
Local
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Reservoir
Suffer
Thus
Underground
Waters
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The #metoo campaign picked up speed after the actress Alyssa Milano suggested that if every woman simply typed 'me too' on their platform of choice, they might give the world a true sense of the magnitude of the problem. The hope is that safety in numbers might minimize the shame many women feel in admitting that this has happened to them.
Emily Chang /
Admitting
Magnitude
Numbers
Safety
Speed
Actress
Campaign
Choice
Simply
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Platform
Suggested
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