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“While no rigorous proof of an optimal strategy has been achieved, Robbins has proposed the principal of "staying on a winner" and has shown it to be uniformly better than a strategy of random selection.”
Source : "The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic". Book by Richard Arnold Epstein, 1977.
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“I was very impressed with Hanson's performance. I thought that little drummer was a kick-ass drummer, and uh, that they sang great, I mean I didn't know either, y'know, that these little boys, y'know, I was very impressed. I think they'll probably be around in 20 years writing good songs, and being a great band.”
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“I dated a guy who played bad guys in movies all the time, and I think he was just a bad guy.”
Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“UV is bad for molecules because its high energy breaks the bonds between a molecule's constituent atoms. That's why UV is bad for you, too: it's always best to avoid things that decompose the molecules of your flesh.”
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“If a man achieves or suffers change in premises which are deeply embedded in his mind, he will surely find that the results of that change will ramify throughout his whole universe.”
Source : Gregory Bateson (1972). “Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology”, p.336, University of Chicago Press
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“Learn to think for yourself, unless of course you can identify someone else with better judgement, and a flashlight.”
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“You are telling me that your lawyer is a bloodsucking vampire?”
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“The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the single most valuable investment a writer can make with his time.”