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A recurrent theme of this book is that luck plays a large role in every story of success; it is almost always easy to identify a small change in the story that would have turned a remarkable achievement into a mediocre outcome.

— Daniel Kahneman Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011)

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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.

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

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

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

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