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There are only two types of people in the world. People who want to live comfortably—they are seeking death, they want a comfortable grave. And people who want to live—they choose to live dangerously, because life thrives only when there is risk.
Courage: the Joy of Living Dangerously
Osho
“What you’ve just discovered is called ‘positive bias’,” said the boy. “You had a rule in your mind, and you kept on thinking of triplets that should make the rule say ‘Yes’. But you didn’t try to test any triplets that should make the rule say ‘No’. In fact you didn’t get a single ‘No’, so ‘any three numbers’ could have just as easily been the rule. It’s sort of like how people imagine experiments that could confirm their hypotheses instead of trying to imagine experiments that could falsify them—that’s not quite exactly the same mistake but it’s close.
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Whatever cannot obey itself, is commanded. Such is the nature of living things.
Thus Spake Zarathustra
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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