Quote by Martha Beck
We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can l

We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster. – Martha Beck

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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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Change
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Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be. – Martha Beck

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Anger
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Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury. – Martha Beck

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dating
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I dont mind my age. – Heather Mills

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Age

I think that clearly it has an influence, to be coming of age during the punk rock era, to come from a difficult and sporadically violent background, to have been in and out of such chaos, I think it actually helps. But I dont know for sure. – Craig Ferguson

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Age

In youth the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days long. – Nikita Ivanovich Panin

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Age

Age is like the newest version of a software — it has a bunch of great new features but you lost all the cool features the original version had. – Carrie Latet

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Age

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Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces. – Sigmund Freud

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Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. – Walter Pater

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