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“When the mind is full of any one subject, that subject seems to recur with extraordinary frequency - it appears to pursue or to meet us at every turn: in every conversation that we hear in every book we open, in every newspaper we take up, the reigning idea recurs; and then we are surprised, and exclaim at these wonderful coincidences.”

Mind Book Ideas Seems Turns Wonderful Subjects Conversation Extraordinary Newspapers Pursue Coincidence Frequency

Book:Works of Maria Edgeworth: Harrington. Ormond. 1825

Source: Works of Maria Edgeworth: Harrington. Ormond. 1825

“There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic scientist, the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call epistemic arrogance, this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.”

Certain Ability Wonderful Fool Reader Scientist Newspapers Journalist Arrogance Categories Academic Pseudo Discounts

Book:Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile

Source: Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile

“It's still a great, big, beautiful, wonderful world no matter what the headlines of the newspapers are and it's there to be explored. It's there for our children to go out and explore and explore different cultures and learn from it. I never lose hope.”

World Children Stills Different Matter Bigs Beautiful Culture Loses Wonderful Our Children No Matter What Newspapers Headlines Different Cultures Never Lose Hope Wonderful World

Author:Liam Neeson

“It is way less certain to be a wonderful business in the future. The threat is alternative mediums of information. Every newspaper is scrambling to parlay their existing advantage into dominance on the Internet. But it is way less sure [that this will occur] than the certainty 20 years ago that the basic business would grow steadily, so there's more downside risk. The perfectly fabulous economics of this business could become grievously impaired.”

Way Years Certain Grows Wonderful Risk Information Internet Advantage Years Ago Economics Threat Newspapers Mediums Certainty Alternatives Fabulous Dominance

Author:Charlie Munger

“I did a lot of reading of first person accounts from Koreans and combatants and aid workers. And I spoke to relatives. A lot of wonderful photographs were made available to me from that period - 1950-1956 - and those were given to me by a Korean newspaper in Seoul. Ruined villages, refugees streaming through a river valley, GI's and orphans and orphanages, those tiny details that you can only see in a picture.”