"If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge."

-- Eliezer Yudkowsky

#Zero Quotes #Outcomes Quotes #Explaining Quotes

“Our education system was developed for an industrial era where we could teach certain skills to our children and they were able to use these skills for the rest of their lives working productively in an industry.”
“Be proud of your mistakes. Well, proud may not be exactly the right word, but respect them, treasure them, be kind to them, learn from them. And, more than that, and more important than that, make them. Make mistakes. Make great mistakes, make wonderful mistakes, make glorious mistakes. Better to make a hundred mistakes than to stare at a blank piece of paper too scared to do anything wrong.”
“When God saw that people, instead of turning to God, were turning to the medicine cabinet, God made himself available in the medicine cabinet.”

Source : "Ecstasy: The Complete Guide: A Comprehensive Look at the Risks and Benefits of MDMA". Book by Julie Holland, 2001.
“Once you lose attachment to how you want things to be because you realize you don't control anything, there's a curiously liberating aspect of that. I've always been a control freak, I've always felt that if I try hard enough, everyone I love will be kept safe and everything will be okay. Being shown, in such brutal terms, that that's simply not the way it works, in someways, it messed me up. I've been through hell, but on another level, if you pile up so much tragedy, it either destroys you, or you just start laughing about it. Because at the end of the day, no one gets out alive.”
“Surround yourself with love, not friends.”

Source : FaceBook post by Lil Wayne from Oct 14, 2011
“All too rarely do I hear people asking just what it is that we've done to make so many children's hearts so hard, or what collectively we might do to right their moral compass - what values we must live by.”
“So often we are depressed by what remains to be done and forget to be thankful for all that has been done.”
“all truly great art is propaganda ...”

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