"The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence but of the coherence of the story the mind has managed to construct."

-- Daniel Kahneman

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“The best evidence of our having the truth is our walking in the truth.”
“Be kind to yourself, dear - to our innocent follies. Forget any sounds or touch you knew that did not help you dance. You will come to see that all evolves us.”
“I've been able to go on and have a successful career on Broadway and certainly the last five years in Las Vegas have been amazing.”
“Un-Christian behavior on the part of any Christian is a disgrace to all Christians.”
“You're speaking coldly towards me but why is it that my heart isn't getting cold at all? Is it because your heart is saying something else? Is it because there's something else you're hoping that I'll hear? So tell me the real reason. Why are you doing this? I'll become your strength. I have the confidence to do that.”
“The people who run the game, they are the ones who want to change it and make people believe that its different somehow. Its not different, the only difference is that some ballplayers today have a chance for a four- or five-year contract and they can make big money.”
“Men killing other men really is an extraordinary phenomenon. Why does it happen? And how long has it gone on? And have the motives changed?”

Source : "John Keegan: A History of Warfare". "Booknotes" with Brian Lamb, booknotes.org. May 8, 1994.
“One of my first thoughts I had when I started considering the mastectomy was, 'What am I going to look like?' And then, 'What will my husband think?”

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