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Varadharajan
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These triple features: rarity, extreme 'impact' and retrospective (not prospective) predictability signify a Black Swan event.
“With enough determination, any bloody idiot can get up this hill,” Hall observed. “The trick is to get back down alive.”
― Into Thin Air
― Into Thin Air
“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
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“Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him. Or give it up. This is not a game of cards! This is your life and mine! I've spent a whole lifetime building this and as long as I'm in charge, nobody is going to knock it down.”
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“One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn't even know whether or not one can hang on till the next day.”
― The Fall
― The Fall
“We have held the peculiar notion that a person or society that is a little different from us, whoever we are, is somehow strange or bizarre, to be distrusted or loathed. Think of the negative connotations of words like alien or outlandish. And yet the monuments and cultures of each of our civilizations merely represent different ways of being human. An extraterrestrial visitor, looking at the differences among human beings and their societies, would find those differences trivial compared to the similarities.”
― Cosmos
― Cosmos
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