"Beauty and Truth, tho' never found, are worthy to be sought."

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Source : Robert Williams Buchanan (1865). “Undertones”, p.11

Robert Williams Buchanan

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“Memory selects single important images, just as the camera does. In that manner both are able to isolate the highest moments of living.”
“I focus on the most important form of innumeracy in everyday life, statistical innumeracy--that is, the inability to reason about uncertainties and risk.”

Source : Gerd Gigerenzer (2015). “Calculated Risks: How to Know When Numbers Deceive You”, p.24, Simon and Schuster
“Changing course is never easy.”
“If only I'd known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.”
“Every thought is a cause & every condition is an effect. Change your thoughts & you change your destiny.”
“In my view, the Western model of influencing the development of third world countries is doomed to failure. The West does not understand how to deal with states that no longer have any authority and are threatened by dissolution. Their efforts failed in Iraq as well as Afghanistan. They are simply not capable of promoting the indigenous economy. Many billions of dollars flooded into Afghanistan, but without any significant effect.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“After I won 21 games, I said, "This isn't that hard actually. I can do this every year for maybe 10, 15 years." To tell you the truth I thought I was going to be in the Hall of Fame. I really thought that. You feel so strong, so powerful walking down the street. You know you can throw a ball harder than any man in the world, or certainly the top five. Sandy Koufax knocked all of us out of the box on that one, so we would think, "I'm the second or third hardest thrower in the game."”
“I am not who I sleep with. I am not my weight. I am not my mother. I am myself. And I am all of you, and I thank you.”

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