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"The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say 'no' to almost everything."
"All I Want to Know Is Where I'm Going to Die So I'll Never Go There": Buffett and Munger a Study in Simplicity and Uncommon, Common Sense
Peter Bevelin
Now this principle of induction cannot be a purely logical truth like a tautology or an analytic statement.Indeed, if there were such a thing as a purely logical principle of induction, there would be no problem of induction; for in this case, all inductive inferences would have to be regarded as purely logical or tautological transformations, just like inferences in deductive logic.
The Logic of Scientific Discovery
Karl Popper
"What does it take to be a comic writer?" He said, "It takes audacity and exuberance and gaiety, and the most important one is audacity." Then he said: "The reader has to feel that the writer is feeling good."
On Writing Well, the Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction, 6e
William Zinsser
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