Amos Tversky Quotes
“Metaphors replace genuine uncertainty about the world with semantic ambiguity. A metaphor is a cover-up.”
Quotes to Explore
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Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.
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I was raised to treat my body as a temple, but even as a little girl, I had a major issue with self-esteem. I thought there was something wrong with the temple.
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Passive violence can be as simple as someone honking their horn at you for not turning fast enough when the light changes. And it can be highly complex, like when your co-worker undermines all of your work relationships by spreading rumors and lies about you. That's how passive violence rolls.
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You learn something when you don't play well, and I figure that helping people, it makes me very, very happy.
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My humble prayer is that all men everywhere may understand more fully the significance of the atonement of the Savior of all mankind, who has given us the plan of salvation which will lead us into eternal life, where God and Christ dwell.
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Every state that addresses climate change emboldens the others, just as shifting public attitudes embolden politicians and, arguably, the court system.
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I grew up here and my friends are here. There's nothing wrong with here.
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I have always considered tennis as a combat in an arena between two gladiators who have their racquets and their courage as their weapons.
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We have to make it clear to the multi-nationals that slavery is too high a price to pay for cheap goods
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This is a great moment, when you see, however distant, the goal of your wandering. The thing which has been living in your imagination suddenly become part of the tangible world. It matters not how many ranges, rivers or parching dusty ways may lie between you; it is yours now for ever.
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I think of death as some delightful journey that I shall take when all my tasks are done.
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Style is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.
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In scientific thinking are always present elements of poetry. Science and music requires a thought homogeneous.
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My wife and I were shopping for the whole family. In the music department my wife said, "Let's get your nephew a set of drums. That's what your brother did to us last year."
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I was always curious. I always wondered why Tarzan is the King of the Jungle in Africa, he was white.
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Younger feminists actually care about stuff that came before them, the same way that I totally cared about and loved and felt so lucky to have access to the feminism that came before me. To have younger people take what me and my friends have done, and to say 'We have access to that, but we're going to put that through our own Internet generation filter and we're going to make it into something that speaks to us and is a lot smarter.'
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This implies that the laws governing organic cohesion, the organization leading from the part to the whole, represent a biological uncertainty, indeed an uncertainty of the first order.
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My procrastination which has held me back was born of fear ... now I know that to conquer fear I must always act without hesitation and the flutters in my heart will vanish. Now I know that action reduces the lion of terror.... I will walk where the failure fears to walk.
