"We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise."

-- Nate Silver

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“If man wishes to know anything about Creation (the time of Creation, the duration of Creation, the order of Creation, the methods of Creation, or anything else) his sole source of true information is that of divine revelation.”
“You come to realize that life is short, and you have to step up. Don't feel sorry for me. Much is expected of those who are strong.”
“I'm worried about myself, not anybody else. I have my goals and I'm not worried about anyone. I need to take care of myself before I worry about someone else.”
“In some of the best worship songs we bring our praises to God - yet at the same time also end up preaching to ourselves.”

Source : Twitter post from Nov 22, 2011
“The measure of (mental) health is flexibility (not comparison to some 'norm'), the freedom to learn from experience ... to be influenced by reasonable arguments ... and the appeal to the emotions ... and especially the freedom to cease when sated. The essence of illness is the freezing of behavior into unalterable and insatiable patterns.”

Source : Lawrence S. Kubie (1966). “Newurotic Distortion of the Creative Process”
“Movies portray men as tough guys.”
“We're going to sing about things that matter to us. The balancing act is to present these ideas but also make the music exciting and sort of fun enough that even if you're not paying attention to the lyrics, you might still like the songs anyway. That's the idea.”
“I'd like to think I'd never do a gratuitous fart joke.”

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