"For better or worse, we live in possible……" — Alison Gopnik
"For better or worse, we live in possible worlds as much as actual ones. We are cursed by that characteristically human guilt and regret about what might have been in the past. But that may be the cost for our ability to hope and plan for what might be in the future."
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53 Quotes by Alison Gopnik
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