"I no longer try to be right; I choose to be happy."

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Source : "3 things I learned while my plane crashed". TED conference, www.ted.com. March 2011.

Ric Elias

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“There are some who apparently feel that the fight for freedom is separate from the Gospel. They express it in several ways, but it generally boils down to this: Just live the gospel; there's no need to get involved in trying to save freedom and the Constitution or stop communism.... Should we counsel the people, 'Just live your religion - there's no need to get involved in the fight for freedom?' No we should not, because our stand for freedom is a most basic part of our religion.”
“I use three main tools in writing: instinct, hard work and dumb luck. Dumb luck is missing a train and, while you wait for the next one, writing a key word, line or verse. When this happens often enough you begin to believe in Fate.”
“The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.”
“I think that when I first suggested the idea that knowledge should be viewed as a natural kind, many people thought this was just crazy.”
“The essence of the phenomenon of gambling is decision making. The act of making a decision consists of selecting one course of action, or strategy, from among the set of admissible strategies.”

Source : "The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic". Book by Richard Arnold Epstein, 1977.
“I can't concentrate in flats. I could go to the gym if I wore flats, I'd love to go to the gym, but I just can't get my head around the footwear.”
“Ant 1: So, uh, do you ever worry that your itsy little neck is just going to snap under the weight of your head? Ant 2: Stop asking me that. You ask me that, like, every five minutes. Ant 1: Sometimes I notice my antennae out of the corner of my eye and I'm all, like: AHH! Something is on me! Get it off! Get it off! Ant 2: Yeah, the antennae again. Listen, I just remembered, I have to go walk around aimlessly now.”
“Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.”

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