"One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it."

-- Djuna Barnes

#Peculiar Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“Chance is commonly viewed as a self-correcting process in which a deviation in one direction induces a deviation in the opposite direction to restore the equilibrium. In fact, deviations are not "corrected" as a chance process unfolds, they are merely diluted.”

Source : Amos Tversky, Eldar Shafir (2004). “Preference, Belief, and Similarity: Selected Writings”, p.207, MIT Press
“If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.”
“A mind is accustomed to mathematical deduction, when confronted with the faulty foundations of astrology, resists a long, long time, like an obstinate mule, until compelled by beating and curses to put its foot into that dirty puddle.”
“Itâ€™s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.”
“He glanced back at the wall. How like a mirror, too, her face. Impossible; for how many people did you know who reflected your own light to you? People were more often--he searched for a simile, found one in his work--torches, blazing away until they whiffed out. How rarely did other people's faces take of you and throw back to you your own expression, your own innermost trembling thought?”
“A man is not moral because he is obedient through fear or ignorance. Morality lives in the realm of perceived obligation...”
“I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind.”

Source : Popular Lectures and Addresses "Electrical Units of Measurement" (1889).

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