“Under normal circumstances, you inviting me to the bedroom would be the highlight of my day.”
Source: The Indigo Spell
“If you want to get an idea of a friend's temperament, ethics, and personal elegance, you need to look at him under the tests of severe circumstances, not under the regular rosy glow of daily life. Can you assess the danger a criminal poses by examining only what he does on an ordinary day? Can we understand health without considering wild diseases and epidemics? Indeed the normal is often irrelevant.”
Source: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2007), p. xxix
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