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We should determine in what condition we wish to be. In what kind of pursuits … a decision most difficult for all; for it is in early youth, when judgment is the weakest, that one chooses some mode of life with which one has become enamoured, and thus is involved in a fixed avocation and course before he is capable of judging what is best for him.
Consiglieri
Richard Hytner
If a set can belong to another set, then there is nothing to stop a set belonging to itself, being a member of itself, or being of a set containing itself. Some sets contain themselves, some don’t. Russell defined R to be the set of all sets that don’t contain themselves. Is R a member of R or not? If R is a member of R, then it doesn’t contain itself, and hence isn’t a member of R. If R is not a member of R, then it doesn’t contain itself and hence is a member of R. That is a contradiction!
The Little Book of Mathematical Principles, Theories & Things
Robert Solomon
CBS provides an interesting example of another rule of you psychology-namely, Pavlovian association. If people tell what you really don't want to hear-what's unpleasant-there's an almost automatic reaction of antipathy. You have to train yourself out of it. It isn't foredestined that you have to be this way. But vou will tend to be this way if you don't think about it.
Poor Charlie's Almanack by Charles T. Munger
Charles T. Munger
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