There are even algorithms being used on you and me right now that listen to us speak, decide what kind of person we are and then decide how company X should treat us in the future.

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Me: So how long will you monitor before you decide whether to change?

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"If you decide that someone has a distressed personality, that doesn't tell me enough as a clinician to know how I'm going to treat that patient, " said Robert Carney of the Washington University School of Medicine.

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So let me return to Lyndon Johnson's charge: You're the generation that must decide.

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If you're asking me do I anticipate that the Republican leadership in the House or the Senate suddenly decide that I was right all along and they will adopt a hundred percent of my proposals, the answer is, no, I don't expect that.

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