"It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly."

-- Bertrand Russell

#Life Quotes #Money Quotes #Greed Quotes

“It was nothing, but it was Adam Parrish's nothing. How he hated and loved it. How proud he was of it, how wretched it was.”
“The great comfort of turning forty-nine is the realization that you are now too old to die young.”
“People would see a lot of times fighting as a ugly thing, as a thing that denigrates the human being. In reality, you see fighting on everything... Everything's fighting. Doesn't matter what it is. You wake up in the morning, to get out of bed is a fight, believe it. So, fighting is actually the best thing a man can have in his soul.”
“I don't hide my emotions from people. I am not a focus-group tested, blow- dried candidate or governor.”
“Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.”
“As a parent, you experience the most of everything. The most love, the most fear, the most hurt and the most tired, the most of every emotion.”
“Man's salvation and perfection consists of doing the will of God which he must have in view in all things, and at every moment of his life.”
“Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the serenity to accept the things we cannot predict, the courage to predict the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”

Source : Nate Silver (2012). “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't”, p.309, Penguin

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