Amos Tversky Quotes
“Metaphors replace genuine uncertainty about the world with semantic ambiguity. A metaphor is a cover-up.”
Amos Tversky
Quotes to Explore
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Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.
Wayne Dyer
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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.
Iman
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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.
Inga Muscio
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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.
Yani Tseng
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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.
Harold B. Lee
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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.
Ramez Naam
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In scientific thinking are always present elements of poetry. Science and music requires a thought homogeneous.
Albert Einstein
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Sometimes when you get an opportunity to appropriate your work, or use whatever collateral you have, for something good, you think, "Well, yeah, you should do this." You're not in any way qualified to do it, but I was so sick of hearing so many unqualified people say that global warming doesn't exist, I thought, "Well, I'm no less qualified than they are, so I can deal with doing it."
Thomas Edward Yorke
Atoms for Peace
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Put variety in white.
Charles Webster Hawthorne
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I'm not going to tell people how to write, but we do have a skill set, and the more we put ourselves out into the world as poets, as a sort of poet of the tribe, as representatives of metaphor, and try to claim space for metaphor in the inner life, that's going to be important and be helpful to poetry and bring a tension for poets writing about whatever they choose.
David Biespiel
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My parents didn't have a lot of money, but we never knew that. They really did the best they could.
Dorothy Hamill
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When it's hard and you are doubtful, give more.
Francis Chan
