"Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk."

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Charles Duhigg

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“I stopped appearing as Dracula in 1972 because in my opinion the presentation of the character had deteriorated to such an extent, particularly bringing him into the contemporary day and age, that it really no longer had any meaning.”
“You are inhuman brutes determined to rob us of our spiritual consolations and sweep away the moral foundations of our civilization, and on the other: You are obscurantist ignoramuses who'd like to shut down progress and drag us all back to the 16th century, with kings and priests telling us what to think.”
“People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”
“If all the earth were paper white / And all the sea were ink / 'Twere not enough for me to write / As my poor heart doth think.”
“Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.”

Source : "A Natural History of the Senses". Book by Diane Ackerman, 1990.
“Some are trapped in boxes of pea-sized Christianity, full of myths about missions that rob them of incentive to care about the unreached”

Source : David Bryant (1984). “In the gap: what it means to be a world Christian”
“That was the true terror of love, that you could love with your whole heart, your whole soul, and lose both”
“We are nothing: imitations, copies, phantoms: repeaters of what we understand badly, that is, hardly at all: the animated fossils of a prehistory that have lived neither here nor there, consequently anywhere, for we are aboriginal foreigners, transplanted from birth in our respective countries of origin.”

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