QUOTE A DAY - June 26, 2014

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JA

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*---- Quotes For The Week ----*
If one event, a single event makes a difference, *and* it doesn't depend on you, then you are megafragile, a prisoner of circumstances. This is not to say that no good event can make a difference to you, rather that you do not *need* to dream about it. For the alternative should be acceptable enough for you. The outcome of the battle is not what matters, but how *you* fight; for that you do not need to hope and dream like a loser.

Likewise if you end up losing a lawsuit or something of the sort, show off how honorable you are in handling defeat. So, simply, get organized in a way to not have to dream tomorrow or the day after. It takes a while, a lot of work, and the certainty that the counterfactual is equally good for you.
--Nassim Taleb

One of the most encouraging aspects of the story has been that there has been a complete breakdown in the traditional, standard divisions between left and right or conservative and liberal, Republican and Democrat. There has been this extremely inspiring bipartisan coalition that has emerged that has demanded that there be constraints imposed on the NSA.
--Glenn Greenwald

I am against the exaggerated claims that have at times rightly been denounced as "scientism". I am on the side of the search for truth; of intellectual daring for the search for truth; but I am against intellectual arrogance and especially against the misconceived claim that we have truth in our pockets, or that we can approach certainty.
--Karl Popper


**--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---**
Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgement of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it.

See at the bottom for the answer

*---- More Quotes for the Week ----*
I was in Dallas when we got the son of a bitch and I was in Los Angeles when we got the little bastard.
--David Morales, CIA Chief of Operations

"[I]f the individual is no longer to be sovereign, if the police can pick him up whenever they do not like the cut of his jib, if they can 'seize' and 'search' him in their discretion, we enter a new regime. The decision to enter it should be made only after a full debate by the people of this country."
--U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas

It's not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life. It's how you handle what happens to you that makes the difference.
--Zig Ziglar, motivational speaker


MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY?

Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgement of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it.

ANSWER: Kathleen Casey Theisen

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