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“There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.”

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Author:William James

“Thousands of years of ideological, philosophical and practical decisions were made. They altered the surface of the earth, the coordinates of our souls. For every one of those decisions, maybe there's another decision that could have been made, should have been made.”

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Author:Arundhati Roy

“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”

Source: Epigrams and Aphorisms

“...life is a gift bestowed without anyone asking for it; that the thinking person has a philosophical duty to examine both the nature of life and the conditions it comes with; and that if this person decides to renounce the gift no one asks for, it is the moral and human duty to act on the consequences of that decision.”

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Book:The Sense of an Ending

Source: The Sense of an Ending

“Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.”

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Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.”

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Book:The Dialogues of Plato

Source: The Dialogues of Plato

“People who have cut their teeth on philosophical problems of rationality, knowledge, perception, free will and other minds are well placed to think better about problems of evidence, decision making, responsibility and ethics that life throws up.”

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Author:Simon Blackburn