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1 " People see stories everywhere...We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true...We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy. "
― Patrick Ness , More Than This
2 " A sequence of random events isn't really random at all. It's just made to look that way so it will ensnare the unwary. "
3 " Unravelling the complexity of human development is a daunting task and it is unlikely that scientists will ever be able to do so for even one individual, because the interactions of biology and environment are likelihoods and not certainties. There are just too many ways that the cards could stack up. More importantly, as the vernacular saying goes, " Shit happens" , which is a very succinct and scientifically accurate way of saying that random events during development can change the course of who we become in unpredictable ways. "
4 " People see stories everywhere," Regine says. " That's what my father used to say. We take random events and we string them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true." She glances back at Seth. " We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy. "
5 " The human mind has a tendency to observe unsystematic events and assign a pattern to the results. A habitual risk-taker reorganizes the stream of random events and retrospectively attributes the outcome of indiscriminate trials to their own gambling “strategies.” We often hear people say that they are lucky or unlucky, when in actuality they can claim no ownership in the occurrence of chaotic outcomes. A false sense of the existence of luck can cause people to discount the value of their actual effort, skill, and training. "
― , Dead Toad Scrolls
