"There may be occasions when it is best to behave irrationally, but whether there are should be decided rationally."

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Source : "Good Thinking: The Foundations of Probability and Its Applications" by I. J. Good, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1983.

I. J. Good

#May Quotes #Should Quotes #Behave Quotes

“Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.”
“And don't worry about your lineage poetic or natural.”
“Fast. Powerful. User-friendly. Now choose any two.”
“They said, â€œYou are a savage and dangerous woman.â€ I am speaking the truth. And the truth is savage and dangerous.”
“What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?”
“On the news that the Tsar had sent the troops icons to boost their morals, General Dragomirov quipped: 'The Japanese are beating us with machine-guns, but never mind: we'll beat them with icons.”
“I disagree with the idea that modern dancers are cold or unemotional.”
“If a poet writes to save his soul, he may save the soul of others.”

Source : Richard Eberhart (1979). “Of Poetry and Poets”, Urbana : University of Illinois Press

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