"One of the major biases in risky decision making is optimism. Optimism is a source of high-risk thinking."

-- Daniel Kahneman

#Thinking Quotes #Optimism Quotes #Decision Quotes

“ashes or diamonds foe or friend we're all equal in the end”
“I continued to protect him with my silence.”
“A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.”
“Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.”

Source : Song: Unanswered Prayers, Album: No Fences, 1990
“Our fans would never waste good beer by pouring it on us,”
“Several Southeastern tribes have long said that their ancestors received immigrants from Mesoamerica and that these immigrants introduced many cultural changes. Far too few anthropologists were listening.”
“My father took me back home, back to Greenwich Village, and he thought by taking me out of the orphanage he'd be out of the World War too. But no way - they got him anyway. He went in the Navy and then I lived on the streets.”
“Science is neither a single tradition, nor the best tradition there is, except for people who have become accustomed to its presence, its benefits and its disadvantages. In a democracy it should be separated from the state just as churches are now separated from the state.”

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