"If you are like most people, then like most people, you don't know you're like most people."

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Source : Daniel Gilbert (2006). “Stumbling on Happiness”, p.229, Vintage

Daniel Gilbert

“Probably the most honest "self-made person" ever was the one we heard say: "I got to the top the hard way - fighting my own laziness and ignorance every step of the way."”
“Whenever people with money have power over people with less money, you have the potential for exploitation.”
“Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.”
“It's okay. We aren't in the same class. Just don't forget that some of us watch the sunset too.”
“Do not live in the shadow of the masters for ever. Learn to live in the light of your soul. Life deserves full expression.”
“I think President Obama could have handled politics and policies differently. But he has been decisive, strong, and consistent - important qualities in a president. Mitt Romney is indeed an Etch A Sketch, the antithesis of leadership.”
“Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.”

Source : Dean Koontz (2007). “False Memory”, p.80, Bantam
“It is not the present which unfluences the future, thou fool, but the future which forms the present. You have it all backward. Since the future is set, an unfolding of events which will assure that future is fixed and inevitable.”

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