"It didnâ€™t matter who was more right. What mattered is that we listened to each other"

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W. Craig Zwick

“... a curious superstition. This is the belief that, if there be introspection at all, it must give exhaustive and infallible information.”

Source : C.D. Broad (2014). “The Mind and Its Place in Nature”, p.284, Routledge
“I like to listen to mellow stuff on the road like Travis, as we are constantly surrounded by rock music on tour and so its nice listening to mellow stuff. Obviously back at home I listen to a lot more rock music.”
“Just because we are back home, don't get comfortable. Have that same uptight feeling like it's just us against everyone.”
“In a world that's changing so quickly, you're guaranteed to fail if you don't take any risks.”
“Over the years, autism has almost been a diagnosis in the eye of the beholder, which allows for all kinds of arguments and dissension and theories and competing therapies to come into play.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Itâ€™s hard to let go. Even when what youâ€™re holding onto is full of thorns, itâ€™s hard to let go. Maybe especially then.”
“I picked up a man from the street, and he was eaten up alive from worms. Nobody could stand him, and he was smelling so badly. I went to him to clean him, and he asked, 'Why do you do this?' I said, 'Because I love you.'”
“And knowing what happens on average is a good place to start. By so doing, we insulate ourselves from the tendency to build our thinking - our daily decisions, our laws, our governance - on exceptions and anomalies rather than on reality”

Source : Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner (2010). “SuperFreakonomics, Illustrated edition: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance”, p.31, Harper Collins

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