"In economic life and history more generally, just about everything of consequence comes from black swans; ordinary events have paltry effects in the long term."

-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#Swans Quotes #Long Quotes #Black Quotes

“I did an episode of The Profiler. I actually worked on the last episode of Murphy Brown.”
“If you manage to stop the timber industry from cutting this forest, they'll cut that forest. If you stop oil drilling here, they'll go drill there.”
“Your brain works with all the subtlety of a malicious child.”
“I wanted to be strong when I went back to Persuasion. Strong and beautiful and totally together. I dreamed of the day Iâ€™d get to rub all your faces in my sheer awesomeness.”
“When I moved to the United States [from Asia] in 2001, I experienced a more rigid concept of gender, but somehow I was allowed to change my name and my gender marker. Why is there that paradox? How do I get those two things to be the same?”
“Pressure is a privilege ... it's what you do with it that matters.”
“I see not a step before me as I tread on another year;But I've left the Past in God's keeping,-the FutureHis mercy shall clear;And what looks dark in the distance may brighten as I draw near.”

Source : "Not Knowing". The Congregationalist; set to music as a hymn by Philip Paul Bliss in the 1870s, as quoted in "Glimpses of Christian History Presents More Stories: Blessed Bliss" (2007) by Thomas Corts, March 1869.
“If your fundamental is a man dying on the cross for his enemies, if the very heart of your self-image and your religion is a man praying for his enemies as he died for them, sacrificing for them, loving them - if that sinks into your heart of hearts, it's going to produce the kind of life that the early Christians produced. The most inclusive possible life out of the most exclusive possible claim - and that is this is the truth. But what is the truth? The truth is a God become weak, loving and dying for the people who opposed him, dying forgiving them.”

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