Many of our so-called decisions and plans are only the by-products of the variations in our mood.
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in reading orderRandomness is not uncertainty, and the fact that something is random does not make it uncertain.
We tend to like to attribute things to single, causal explanations.
Never take risks that will potentially wipe you out, no matter how marginal the odds of that happening.
Intellectual, scientific, and artistic 'discoveries' are made by those whose mind is prepared for them.
You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
One cannot judge a performance in any given field (war, politics, medicine, investments) by the results, but by the costs of the alternative (i.e., if history played out in a different way).
Keep what you read, not just what you finished.
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