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Kahneman was focused on the flip side of kind learning environments; Hogarth called them “wicked.”

Range

David Epstein

Sometimes, it can be useful to execute some code after the function has returned, but before control has been returned to the call site. This is the purpose of Swift's defer statement.

Swift Cookbook

Keith Moon and Chris Barker

How singular is the thing called pleasure, and how curiously related to pain, which might be thought to be the opposite of it; for they are never present to a man at the same instant, and yet he who pursues either is generally compelled to take the other; their bodies are two, but they are joined by a single head.

The Complete Harvard Classics - ALL 71 Volumes

Benjamin Franklin, John Woolman, William Penn, Plato, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Francis Bacon, Joh...

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