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“Who has no own conviction dissipates himself in the imitation of others.”
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“There are no conventional games involving conditions of uncertainty without risk.”
Source : "Johannes Gutenberg printed playing cards the same year as his famous Bible (1440). The cards from Gutenberg's press were Tarot cards, from which the modern deck is derived. The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic". Book by Richard Arnold Epstein, 1977.
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“Beneath the surface of our daily life, in the personal history of many of us, there runs a continuous controversy between an Ego that affirms and an Ego that denies.”
Source : Beatrice Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1979). “My Apprenticeship”, p.43, Cambridge University Press
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“To avoid mistakes and regrets, always consult your wife before engaging in a flirtation.”
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“Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.”
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“Better contraceptives will control population only if people will use them. A nuclear holocaust can be prevented only if the conditions under which nations make war can be changed. The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned. We need to make vast changes in human behavior.”
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“I never make moral judgments; I'm not qualified to do so. I am not a censor, a priest, or a politician.”
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“What you see at fight club is a generation of men raised by women.”
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“Even Silicon Valley investors have put well over a $1 billion in new energy technologies.”
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“As a kid, I remember taking apart whatever I could get my hands on.”
