QUOTE A DAY - March 24, 2015

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JA

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*---- Quotes For The Week ----*
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
--Edward R. Murrow

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass... It's about learning to dance in the rain.
--Vivian Greene

In summary, modernity replaced process by result and the relational by the transactional.
--Nassim Taleb


**--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---**
The greatest enemy of truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived and dishonest - but the myth - persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

See at the bottom for the answer

*---- More Quotes for the Week ----*
Relational vs transactional: when you buy goat cheese from your grocer, you have a relationship, not just a transaction, with some kind of bilateral commitment, loyalty, friendship.
--Nassim Taleb

The man who is at the peak of his success, and the man who have just failed are in exactly the same position. Each must decide what he will do next.
--Jigoro Kano

Process vs result: in virtue ethics, what makes you a hero is how you fight, not at all whether you win; what you do rather than the outcome. It clashes with the newfound notion of "success".
--Nassim Taleb


MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY?

The greatest enemy of truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived and dishonest - but the myth - persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

ANSWER: JFK, June 11, 1962

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