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Even very low-probability events can, and indeed do, occur.

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“Funerals aren't for the dead. They're for the living.”

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“In life, there are no true beginnings or endings.”

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“Sometimes words aren't needed.”

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“The first thing I learned that day was this: what you think you know about a person is only a fraction of…

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“I'm saying that death is the easiest thing in the world. It's only dying that's terrible.”

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I knew how many zeroes there were in a quintillion, but I thought that algebra lived in ponds.

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Fear distorts the world. Fear sees demons where only shadows dwell.

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“... not all scars are bad, Alex. Some are worth hanging on to ...”

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In the long history of human affairs, common sense doesn’t have the greatest track record.

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“Because sometimes chance and circumstance can seem like the most appalling injustice, but we just have to adapt. That’s all we can…

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“I think a reading group should have a snappy name to attract members, don't you?' Mr Peterson didn't ask about my snappy…

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“for each of us the brain creates a whole, unique universe. It contains everything we know. Everything we see or touch. Everything…

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“You can't make anyone happy, just like no one else can make you happy. Because real happiness doesn't work like that. You…

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“It was a uniquely human problem, something no other animal had to put up with, this ability to suffer in multiple tenses…

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“Acknowledging reality for myself was one thing. Having to explain what as happening - and what was going to happen - to…

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“People talk about dark moods, black moods, all the time. But depression isn’t a dark mood. It’s an ash-grey mood, or possibly…

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If you had to relive your life exactly as it was – same successes and failures, same happiness, same miseries, same mixture…

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When I read these books, I no longer felt like I was confined to a very tiny world. I no longer felt…

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“Don't you think it's good to serve your country?' I asked. 'No, I don't,' Mr Peterson said. 'I think it's good to…

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“They called our arrangement a 'Death Pact' - but, really, that's not a phrase that tells you anything important. It's just the…

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The most important thing I learned [...] was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very…

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“Well, for each of us the brain creates a whole, unique universe. It contains everything we know. Everything we see or touch.…

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“In life, there are no true beginnings or endings. Events flow into each other, and the more you try to isolate them…

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“All these thoughts drifted like clouds through the virtual space of my mind's eye - tiny electrical and chemical signals that combined…

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“brain creates a whole, unique universe. It contains everything we know. Everything we see or touch. Everything we feel and remember. In…

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“I knew that iridium-193 was one of two stable isotopes of iridium, a very rare, very dense metal, but I didn't know…

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“In case you didn't know, in secondary school - especially in the early years of secondary school - diversity is not celebrated.…

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“It's possible to find order in chaos, and it's equally possible to find chaos underlying apparent order. Order and chaos are slippery…

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“The more I thought about Jocelyn's theory, the less bizarre it seemed. Yes, there were things about it that were absolutely cuckoo…

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“Although I don't use it nearly so much anymore, I've decided, five years down the line, that Mr. Treadstone's verdict on 'kind…

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“If you're a boy, any display of sensitivity is gay. Compassion is gay. Crying is supergay. Reading is usually gay. Certain songs…

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“... The Sirens of Titan …. … ‘That’s a funny name for a book,’ I said with a gulp. ‘Are those women…

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“They sent the shrink round yesterday. He's put me on Prozac. Prozac! He thinks I'm depressed.' 'Aren't you depressed?' 'I wasn't depressed.'…

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“[...] from what I'd been able to ascertain online, the Swiss were a reassuringly practical people. They had a long, proud history…

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“I love my mum, and I'm very grateful to my mum; she dropped everything and came to rescue me when I needed…

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