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“So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?”
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“Many have stood their ground and faced the darkness when it comes for them. Fewer come for the darkness and force it to face them.”
― Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
― Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

“Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality. If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge.”
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“I ask the fundamental question of rationality: Why do you believe what you believe? What do you think you know and how do you think you know it?”
― Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
― Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

“I see little hope for democracy as an effective form of government, but I admire the poetry of how it makes its victims complicit in their own destruction.”
― Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
― Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
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