"Probability is not about the odds, but about the belief in the existence of an alternative outcome, cause, or motive."

--

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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“I've learned that I'm most powerful when I'm doing my art.”
“I have always believed that a good laugh was good for both the mental and physical digestion.”
“I respond to the sound of London being spoken - to the sound of London.”

Source : "Voice from the street" by Sophie Harrison, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2007.
“Obviously, education is hugely important, along with healthcare. They're the basics and you're hurting your own country if you don't pour money into them.”
“If you want to know what it means to be happy, look at a flower, a bird, a child; they are perfect images of the kingdom. For they live from moment to moment in the eternal now with no past and no future.”

Source : "The Way to Love : The Last Meditations of Anthony de Mello". Book by Anthony de Mello, 1995.
“Solitude is a courageous encounter with our naked, most raw and real self, in the presence of pure love.”
“Seriously?" I shrugged. "He can't suspect much if every time we're alone instead of talking I have my way with him." Cole shook his head. "You don't think it'll work?" I asked. He rolled his eyes. "Vayl might be a vampire, but he's also a guy. Who's about to be deliriously happy. Good God, if you work this right, he won't even be mad if finds out because of the way you decided to hide it from him.”
“The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.”

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