"Most of the moments of our life -……" — Daniel Kahneman
"Most of the moments of our life - and I calculated, you know, the psychological present is said to be about three seconds long; that means that, you know, in a life there are about 600 million of them; in a month, there are about 600,000 - most of them don't leave a trace."
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Daniel Kahneman
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158 Quotes by Daniel Kahneman
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