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“The disturbing part is that no one teaches us how to deal with death at any point during our medical training, or even during our lifetime for that matter, particularly in a field such as mine where death was an inevitable certainty for some patients.”
― DEAN MAFAKO, M.D., Burned Out

“What does regression do? It finds a prediction based on the average of what has occurred in the past. For instance, if all you have to go on to determine whether it is going to rain tomorrow is what happened each day last week, your best guess might be an average. If it rained on two of the last seven days, you might predict that the probability of rain tomorrow is around two in seven, or 29 percent. Much of what we know about prediction has been making our calculations of the average better by building models that can take in more data about the context.”
― Ajay Agrawal, Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence

“It’s the opportunity of a lifetime,�� said Ito finally, who had been keeping very quiet
up to this point.
“Indeed. How much will it cost?�� asked Brown
“About twenty million Interplanetary Credits,�� said Demba. “A modest investment for
a man of your means.”
“Indeed,�� said Brown again. That was all the money he had, which started to strike
him as strange, when his thoughts were interrupted.
“We’ll arrange a visit to the mine,�� said Ito. “Show you the place itself.”
“Indeed,�� said Brown. Or had he said that? The strange waking memory he had fallen
into started to become repetitive. Reality started to flow back in.
Diamonds, thought Brown. All those diamonds in that mine.”
― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

“Life is so outrageous I could not have imagined it, made all the
sweeter because it cannot last. It is all about today. Today is the
best day ever because tomorrow might not happen.”
― Hendri Coetzee, Living the Best Day Ever

“You never fail until you quit trying.”
― Tom Sechrist

“Negarse a que el acto delicado de girar el picaporte, ese acto por el cual todo podría transformarse, se cumpla con la fría eficacia de un reflejo cotidiano.”
― Julio Cortázar, Historias de cronopios y de famas

“No one tells the truth to people they don't actually know, and if they do it is a horrible trait. Everyone wants something smaller, something neater than the truth.”
― Ann Patchett, State of Wonder

“Also, please don’t think I’ve forgotten about your outstanding service record, or about all the invaluable contributions that you’ve made to the company. Fire, the wheel, agriculture..It’s an impressive list, old timer. A jolly impressive list. Don’t get me wrong.

But well...to be frank, we’ve had our problems , too. There’s no getting away from it. Do you know what I think? A lot of it stems from? I’ll tell you��

It’s your basic unwillingness to get on with the company. You don’t seem to want to face up to any real responsibility, or to be your own boss. Lord knows you’ve been given plenty of opportunities. We’ve offered you promotion time and time again, and each time you’ve turned us down��

To be frank, you’re not really trying are you?”
― Alan Moore , V for Vendetta

“Все вы одинаковы, этакие огромные волосатые мотыльки, изо всех сил рветесь к какому-нибудь дурацкому огоньку, бьетесь о прозрачное стекло и никак его не разглядите. А уж если ухитритесь пробраться сквозь стекло, так лезете прямо в огонь и сгораете, и конец. А ведь рядом тень и прохлада, есть и еда, и любовь, и можно завести новых маленьких мотыльков. Но разве вы это видите, разве вы этого хотите? Ничего подобного! Вас опять тянет к огню и вы бьетесь, бьетесь до бесчувствия, пока не сгорите!”
― Colleen McCullough, Поющие в терновнике. Книга 2

“We set out to save the Shire, Sam and it has been saved - but not for me.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King