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“We have to tune ourselves into the love frequency because it's higher than fear.”

Ralph Smart

“Having a policy based on works of fiction is worse than having no policy at all.”

Charles Stross The Laundry Files

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.”

Charles Stross The Laundry Files

Source: The Laundry Files, The Jennifer Morgue (2006), Chapter 5, “High Society” (p. 101)

“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”

Benjamin Spock (1903–1998) American pediatrician and author of Baby and Child Care

“If there is one thing that I have come to hate more than the gods, it is time.”

Lois McMaster Bujold book The Hallowed Hunt

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 (professor) (1964) clinical professor of marketing at the NYU Stern School of Business, public speaker and entrepreneur

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.”

Ron English (1959) American artist

Death and the Eternal Forever (2014)

“Consider that the turkey's experience may have, rather than no value, a negative value.”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb book The Black Swan

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.”

C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology

“Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.”

Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American motivational speaker

“A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.”

Khalil Gibran (1883–1931) Lebanese artist, poet, and writer

“Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.”

Laozi (-604) semi-legendary Chinese figure, attributed to the 6th century, regarded as the author of the Tao Te Ching and fou…

“If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is natures way.”

Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy

“The only thing rarer than louts who think is louts who read.”

Sheri S. Tepper (1929–2016) American fiction writer

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.”

Chiang Kai-shek (1887–1975) Chinese politician and military leader

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,

“It is more easy changing someones life status, than changing someones character.”

Bhad Shazzy

“Indecision kills hope. It's better to fail at trying than to not make a move at all.”

Titon Rahmawan

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