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“Having a policy based on works of fiction is worse than having no policy at all.”
Source: The Laundry Files, The Rhesus Chart (2014), Chapter 12, “Green Lime” (p. 229)
“In this line of work, too much paranoia can be worse than too little.”
Source: The Laundry Files, The Jennifer Morgue (2006), Chapter 5, “High Society” (p. 101)
“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
“If there is one thing that I have come to hate more than the gods, it is time.”
Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Hallowed Hunt (2005), Chapter 16 (p. 290)
“When we react faster than thought, we don’t react thoughtfully.”
SCOTT GALLOWAY: All new college graduates need to understand that balance is a myth https://www.businessinsider.com/scott-galloway-dear-college-graduates-become-strong-dont-victim-2021-6 Scott Galloway, Business Insider, June 11, 2021
“I can no more imagine my demise than remember my birth.”
Death and the Eternal Forever (2014)
“Consider that the turkey's experience may have, rather than no value, a negative value.”
It learned from observation, as we are all advised to do (hey, after all, this is what is believed to be the scientific method). Its confidence increased as the number of friendly feedings grew, and it felt increasingly safe even though the slaughter was more and more imminent. Consider that the feeling of safety reached its maximum when the risk was at the highest!
Source: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2007), pp. 40–41 (Taleb attributes the parable of the turkey to Bertrand Russell, who originally wrote of a chicken.)
“The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.”
“Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.”
“A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.”
“Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.”
“If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is natures way.”
“The only thing rarer than louts who think is louts who read.”
Source: The Margarets (2007), Chapter 13, “I Am Naumi/On Thairy” (p. 96)
“I would rather have no offspring than sacrifice our nation's interests.”
The Generalissimo's son: Chiang Ching-kuo and the revolutions in China and Taiwan, Jay Taylor, 2000, Harvard University Press, 74, 0674002873, 2010-06-28 http://books.google.com/books?id=_5R2fnVZXiwC&pg=PA59&dq=chiang+sacrifice+son&hl=en&ei=nQW9TLK5MoT68Aaw9uAC&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=chiang%20son%20i%20would%20rather%20have%20no%20offspring%20than%20sacrifice%20our%20%20interests&f=false,
“Fiction is far more accurate than History when it comes to the human being.”
Source: https://www.mundoclasico.com/articulo/45227/entrevista-intrapersonal-confrontada-omar-jerez-con-jose-baroja
“By your side, it's necessary to have a true person: unique more than rare.”
Original: Al vostro fianco, è necessario avere una persona vera: unica più che rara.
Source: prevale.net
“Experiment, act. Life is better than you have ever dared to hope.”
Original: Sperimentate, agite. La vita è migliore di quanto abbiate mai osato sperare.
Source: prevale.net