"I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one."

-- Gottfried Leibniz

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“You have many years to live do things you will be proud to remember when you're old.”

Source : John Brunner (2013). “Stand On Zanzibar”, p.272, Hachette UK
“The proverbial Englishman, we know from old chronicler Froissart, takes his pleasures sadly, and the Englishwoman goes a step further and takes her pleasures in sadness itself.”
“If we were to tell you to deliberately spend ten minutes every day envisaging yourself being very ill, you'd quite rightly refuse to do it. Most people know that's a bad idea - yet those same people may spend time every day worrying about their health.”
“The amount of times my wife has rolled her eyes at board games is impossible to count.”
“So many young people say, 'I'm just going to see what happens.' It's so much more powerful to make things happen and have a plan.”
“I don't know if my mother was a narcissist - or bi-polar or borderline. Those were words she tossed around over the years.”
“We are all self-made, but only the successful will admit it.”
“We are all far less rational in our decision-making than standard economic theory assumes. Our irrational behaviors are neither random nor senseless: they are systematic and predictable. We all make the same types of mistakes over and over, because of the basic wiring of our brains.”

Source : "Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions". Book by Dan Ariely, February 19, 2008.

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