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“Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.” —Rabindranath Tagore.

“There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Neither is independent of the other or more important than the other. Without art, science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science, art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery.…

“AI is flooding the world with a lot of junk. What matters now is real people and real voices.” —Jessica Jensen.

“Illness is in part what the world has done to a victim, but in a larger part it is what the victim has done with his world.”  —Karl A. Menninger.

“It’s not a virtue to endure life when it fulfills all our wishes, but when it turns against us. Get confident being uncertain.” —Mithali Raj.

“I can’t tell you how much time is spent worrying about decisions that don’t matter. To just be able to make a decision and see what happens is tremendously empowering, but that means you have to set up the situation such that when something does go wrong, you can fix it. When something does go wrong, it doesn’t cost you or your customer an exorbitant amount. It isn’t ridiculously expensive. When…

“To be able to say how much you love is to love but little.” —Petrarch.

“The knowledge we get by tinkering, via trial and error, experience, and the workings of time, in other words, contact with the earth, is vastly superior to that obtained through reasoning, something self-serving institutions have been very busy hiding from us.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

“Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Discharge your duties faithfully and well. Step by step you get ahead, but not necessarily in fast spurts. But you build discipline by preparing for fast spurts … In the end, most people get what they deserve.” —Charlie Munger.

“One of the biggest mistakes we make in our stories is confusing our circumstances with our thoughts about those circumstances.” —Jim Murphy.

“A coach should be a person who is able to help a player mentally.” —Garfield Sobers.

“You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.” —Milton Friedman.

“Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one’s own opinions; nothing strengthens opinions more than refusing to look at reality.” —Sheri S. Tepper.

“The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is, you’re a salesman, and you don’t know that.” —ARTHUR MILLER, Death of a Salesman (1949).

“That’s what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it, and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing in a curious way is winning.”— Richard Bach.

“Live your life as an experiment.”  —Pema Chodron.

“Give people what they want, when they want it, in the form they want it in, at a reasonable price, and they’ll more likely pay for it rather than steal it.”— Kevin Spacey.