"Happiness only real when shared."

-- Christopher McCandless

#Happiness Quotes #Real Quotes

“In listening to stories we tend to suspend disbelief in order to be entertained, whereas in evaluating statistics we generally have an opposite inclination to suspend belief in order not to be beguiled.”

Source : "Data Storytelling: The Essential Data Science Skill Everyone Needs" by Brent Dykes, www.forbes.com. March 31, 2016.
“The subconscious is like having a laboratory assistant who pretends to love you and help you, but after you go home to go to sleep it goes back into the lab and starts fumbling with the data and destroying it. It's a very tricky thing. People think our minds are us, but that's not true at all. The mind is not us.”
“One of my greatest pleasures in life is promising myself I will not drink, or smoke, or take coke, or do heroin, or eat cookies, then doing it. It's a pleasure that can be repeated daily.”

Source : Amanda Filipacchi (2014). “Love Creeps: A Novel”, p.8, Open Road Media
“It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.”
“Peace the offspring is of Power.”
“If you are going to make a change, don't go halfway. Make it with conviction and stick with your new idea. Ignore the scoffers. Remember, it is a law of nature that if something is different you're going to be taunted, jeered, and told the world is flat. Let the doubters fall off the edge.”
“It may be that DMT makes us able to perceive what the physicist call "dark matter" - the 95 per cent of the universe's mass that is known to exist but that at present remains invisible to our senses and instruments.”
“Gentlemen, I would rather have written those lines than take Quebec tomorrow.”

Source : 1759 To his troops,12 Sep, after reciting Thomas Gray's 'Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard' the evening before storming the ramparts of Quebec and dying a hero's death on the Plains of Abraham the following day. Quoted in Francis Parkman Montcalm and Wolfe (1884).

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