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“I think that religion is like a box filled with different sort of things. The box has flowers and love, kept alongside weapons and hate. What we take from that box, and how we use it is our responsibility.”

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“At some juncture in our life, we become an entirely different person than what we started as. Different dreams, different thoughts, different style, different life. When we look at our old photographs, it feels like we are looking at a stranger. Then, it makes us wonder when we stopped being that person in the photograph.”

Shon Mehta Photographs Turning Point Old Memories Shonmehta Thinking Out Loud Old Photos

Author:Shon Mehta

“The problem wasn’t that I loved him more than myself, it was that he loved himself more than I ever could.”

Truth Self Love Ego Hard Love Thinking About It Thinking Out Loud

Author:Dominic Riccitello

“Whenever I’ve ‘jumped ship,’ I rarely ever land in the water. Rather, I tend to land on another ship that’s in just about as much trouble as the one I just jumped off of.”

Running Fear Abandon Frightened Panic Escape Hide Fleeing Flee Jump Ship

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Not everything that makes sense works, and not everything that works makes sense.”

Alchemy Making Sense

Book:Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life

Source: Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life

“Parcifal is one of those corkscrew artifact of culture in which you get the subjective sense that you've learned something from it, something valuable or even priceless; but on closer inspection you suddenly begin to scratch your head and say "Wait a minute. This makes no sense.”

Making Sense

Book:Valis

Source: Valis

“At work here is that powerful WYSIATI ("what you see is all there is") rule. You cannot help dealing with the limited information you have as if it were all there is to know. You build the best possible story from the information available to you, and if it is a good story, you believe it. Paradoxically, it is easier to construct a coherent story when you know little, when there are fewer pieces to fit into the puzzle. Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.”

Ignorance Making Sense View Of The World Wysiati

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“The conceptual vocabulary derived from the classical form of the [multi-armed bandit] problem—the tension between explore/exploit, the importance of the interval, the high value of the 0-0 option [Gittins Index], the minimization of regret—gives us a new way of making sense not only of specific problems that come before us, but of the entire arc of human life. 54”

Regrets Making Sense Narrative Arc

Book:Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

Source: Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

“L'homme ne peut vivre hors de l'espace mais aussi, plus profondément, il a besoin de faire du sens en partant de l'espace pour interpréter les signes qui en sont le maillon central.”

Space Human Condition Making Sense

Book:Le numérique contre le politique

Source: Le numérique contre le politique

“Then he drew back and looked into her eyes. 'You've always made sense,' he said. 'Even when I find it difficult to follow what on earth you're going on about, it seems to me that you make sense.”

Love Making Sense

Author:Alexander Mccall Smith (Author)

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