"It is... easy to be certain. One has only to be sufficiently vague."

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Source : Charles Sanders Peirce (1931). “Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce”

Charles Sanders Peirce

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“My mind and body, my mind and body I cut my body into pieces, and I dedicate these to Him.”
“The philosophy of a lot of European teams, even in home matches, is not to give a goal away.”
“Photography is like a river with a thousand streams that never converge.”
“Advocacy groups, politicians, and bureaucrats use the government to advance their private good instead of the common good.”
“I have had some pretty wild nights! I think the media keeps a very close eye on what people are up to these days. I was out with George Clooney a few nights ago and we had a great time.”
“Being a fool for God was not merely alright but liberating.”
“If I owned any of these Hot New Issues that have doubled, tripled, quintupled or umptupled within days and in some cases hours after they were issued, I most certainly would grab my fabulous windfall, thank my lucky stars and invest the money. It's utter nonsense to think any newly issued stock is really worth two, ten or 20 times the [offering] price.... A management so stupid as to sell shares [cheap], and an underwriter so obtuse as not to discern the real value, together would provide reason enough for a sensible man to get rid of his shares.”
“Optimism can be prescribed and applied as a medicine, and is a remedy in proportion to its purity and the wisdom displayed in its use.”

Source : Horace Fletcher (1908). “Optimism, a Real Remedy”

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