“Don't live your life as though you were measuring it with a ruler.”
Sun Myung Moon (1920–2012) Korean religious leader
The Way of God's Will Chapter 2-2 Character http://www.unification.org/ucbooks/WofGW/wogw2-02.htm Translated 1980.
“Wittgenstein's ruler: "Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler."”
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Fooled by Randomness (2001)
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