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Quote by Martha Beck
My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientist

My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind. – Martha Beck

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Sometimes a psychic tells you something and it feels wrong and others may be right on the money. Its your choice about whom to trust, and giving that trust is something we do ourselves. – Martha Beck

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Bracketing has turned all my experiences, remembered and present, into a gallery of miracles where I wander around dazzled by the beauty of events I cannot explain. – Martha Beck

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No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from lifes slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone. – Martha Beck

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alone
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There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to an anchored life. He should have been somebody who had a backpack, an old map, a bit of change in his pocket and that was it – roaming the world. – Christian Bale

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Ive always been ambitious since I was nine years old and that was never going to change. – Katy Perry

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