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There's literally no difference between a physician recognizing a disease from a "facial expression", and a little child pointing to something and saying "doggie".

— Daniel Kahneman

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People who make a difference do not die alone. Something dies in everyone who was affected by them.

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.

Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011)

A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.

Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011)

Confidence is a feeling, which reflects the coherence of the information and the cognitive ease of processing it.

Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011)

He weights losses about twice as much as gains, which is normal.

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