"Knowing that one may be subject to bias is one thing; being able to correct it is another."

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Source : Jon Elster (2015). “Explaining Social Behavior”, p.118, Cambridge University Press

Jon Elster

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“. If you believe that your nation is divinely ordained to rule Europe, and you must struggle to establish its supremacy, is that a religious doctrine or a nationalist one? In Germany especially, the whole super-nationalist ideology of the post-1871 empire is heavily imbued with religious teaching, chiefly Lutheran, and frankly viewing the new empire as the germ of the kingdom of God on Earth.”
“Do not call up that which you cannot put down.”
“Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.”
“I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was going to be when I grew up.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Supernatural hasn't spent a lot of time on relationship stories, and this is a really nice mechanism to do that without imposing that on the forward momentum of these other stories that we're telling. In the writers' room we tend to say, "We're never going to be able to give a hell or Purgatory as good as people's imaginations," so the instinct is normally not to go there. But, we went the other way this year and said, "We are going to go there," because there's a really, really strong character thing going on down there.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“We might say that both the artist and theneurotic bite off more than they can chew, but the artist spews it back out again and chews it over in an objectified way, as an exÂternal, active, work project...”

Source : Ernest Becker (1997). “The Denial of Death”, p.184, Simon and Schuster
“It is not gender, nor age, nor race, but your ability to work hard at what you love.”
“He bids fair to grow wise who has discovered that he is not so.”

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