"Your mistake was not in imagining things you could not knowâ€”that is, after all, what imagination is for. Rather, your mistake was in unthinkingly treating what you imagined as though it were an accurate representation of the facts."

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Source : Daniel Gilbert (2006). “Stumbling on Happiness”, p.94, Vintage

Daniel Gilbert

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“I try to stay in shape, I work out in the gym, take my vitamins every day, and I guess maybe I have some good genes, but lately Ive been feeling it. You know, after all these years it does catch up with you. But just for now.”
“Money is truthful. If a man speaks of honor, make him pay cash.”
“Build a bridge by extending your hand.”
“I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers.”
“Basic research is like shooting an arrow in the air and, where it lands, painting a target.”
“Mass becomes immobile; it cannot manoeuvre and therefore cannot win victories, it can only crush by sheer weight.”

Source : Hans von Seeckt (1930). “Thoughts of a Soldier”
“If Slumdog Millionaire projects India as a Third World, dirty-underbelly, developing nation and causes pain and disgust among nationalists and patriots, let it be known that a murky underbelly exists and thrives even in the most developed nations. It's just that the Slumdog Millionaire idea authored by an Indian and conceived and cinematically put together by a Westerner, gets creative Golden Globe recognition. The other would perhaps not.”

Source : "Slumdogs who seek success". The Independent, News, p. 30, January 16, 2009.
“Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.”

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