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1 " It's frightening to think that you might not know something, but more frightening to think that, by and large, the world is run by people who have faith that they know exactly what is going on. "
― Amos Tversky
2 " [Metaphors] replace genuine uncertainty about the world with semantic ambiguity. A metaphor is a cover-up. "
3 " Amos believed that people go way out of their way to avoid minor embarrassments and he decided very early on in his life that it was not worth it. "
4 " When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice. Once when you worry about it, and the second time when it happens. "
5 " He who sees the past as surprise free is bound to have a future full of surprises. "
6 " Happy species endowed with infinite appreciation of pleasures and low sensitivity to pain would probably not survive the evolutionary battle "
7 " For all we know, the handwriting might have been on the wall all along. The question is: was the ink invisible? "
