"Consider the case of a person who holds a view with probability 1. Then coherence says that it is no use having a debate with them because nothing will change their mind."

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Source : "Understanding Uncertainty". Book by Dennis Lindley (Chapter 6 "Bayes Rule", p. 91), 2006.

Dennis Lindley

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“I love having candles, especially when you get downtime. I could just pass out seeing the flame flicker with the lights off.”
“Let the revolting distinction of rich and poor disappear once and for all, the distinction of great and small, of masters and valets, of governors and governed. Let there be no other differences between human beings than those of age and sex. Since all have the same needs and the same faculties, let there be one education for all, one food for all.”
“in the synagogue of my heart... I myself jail and the jailed, I go wounded, bite-marked”
“I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.”
“Russian is such a tough and complex language that I am happy enough to understand everything and read most things pretty well, but, without constant practice, my speech is not what I wish it was, and I would sooner write in crayon than write a letter in Russian.”
“I have no intention of raising taxes”
“It's a good feeling to have something to stand for in any part of your life. It's like personal integrity.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Acting is a very strange industry in that it flows in these weird ways, I'll be so busy for 6 months and then nothing for a couple months, so it's hard for me to focus and stuff.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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