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• Markets work best when there's lots of information available and a historical track record to go on; they excel at predicting things like horse races, election outcomes, and box-office results. But they're bad at predicting things like who will be the next Supreme Court nominee, as that depends on the whim of the president.

  James Surowiecki

  Horse, Race, Track

  "The Age of Political Risk". www.newyorker.com. May 24, 2010.

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• For the broadcast business to be successful, viewers need to be not merely interested in our political melodramas, they have to be in an absolute state about them - emotionally invested in the outcome and frightened not to watch what happens next.

  Matt Taibbi

  Successful, Political, Watches

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• If you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Negative, Banking, Surprise

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1051, Random House

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• I think illness is a family journey, no matter what the outcome. Everybody has to be allowed to process it and mourn and deal with it in their own way.

  Marcia Wallace

  Thinking, Journey, Matter

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• As any doctor can tell you, the most crucial step toward healing is having the right diagnosis. If the disease is precisely identified, a good resolution is far more likely. Conversely, a bad diagnosis usually means a bad outcome, no matter how skilled the physician.

  Andrew Weil

  Healing, Mean, Doctors

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.

  E. O. Wilson

  Organization, Quality, Levels

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• Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or irrelevant it looks when they first see it, that doesn't prove to serve a function. The outcome itself may be due to small accidents of evolution.

  E. O. Wilson

  Real, Looks, Research

  "E.O. Wilson Is on Top of the World". Interview with Jill Neimark, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 1998.

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• Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

  Virginia Woolf

  Thinking, Years, Voice

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “A Room of One's Own (Annotated)”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We have no control over the outcome of anything. Like the planet and global warming, we don't control that. If politicians want a war we don't control that. Acts of terrorism, we can't control them.

  will.i.am

  War, Want, Terrorism

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a very positive person. My grandmother taught me that happiness is both a skill and a decision, and you are responsible for the outcome.

  Helen McCrory

  Grandmother, Skills, Decision

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To be cheerful when others are in despair, to keep the faith when others falter, to be true even when we feel forsaken—all of these are deeply desired outcomes during the deliberate, divine tutorials which God gives to us—because He loves us. These learning experiences must not be misread as divine indifference. Instead, such tutorials are a part of the divine unfolding.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Giving, Despair, Cheerful

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• What is the point of worrying oneself too much about what one could or could not have done to control the course one's life took? Surely it is enough that the likes of you and I at least try to make our small contribution count for something true and worthy. And if some of us are prepared to sacrifice much in life in order to pursue such aspirations, surely that in itself, whatever the outcome, cause for pride and contentment.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Sacrifice, Pride, Order

  FaceBook post by Kazuo Ishiguro from Jun 24, 2013

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• How can a novelist achieve atonement when, with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also God?

  Ian Mcewan

  Novelists, Atonement, Achieve

  "Atonement". Book by Ian McEwan, 2001.

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• Do you think there is any chance the Lord would have inspired his prophets to prophesy about us, only to then take a chance on the outcome of the latter days by sending men and women he couldn't count on? There is no chance - zero chance - He would have done that.

  Sheri L. Dew

  Zero, Thinking, Men

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• The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.

  Bruce Lee

  Motivational, Mistake, Thinking

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.197, Tuttle Publishing

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• Dan, I'm not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I did it thirty-five minutes ago.

  Alan Moore

  Thinking, Republic, Chance

  "Watchmen". Сomic book limited series by Alan Moore, 1986–1987.

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• If throughout your life you abstain from murder, theft, fornication, perjury, blasphemy, and disrespect toward your parents, church, and your king, you are conventionally held to deserve moral admiration even if you have never done a single kind, generous or useful action. This very inadequate notion of virtue is an outcome of taboo morality, and has done untold harm.

  Bertrand Russell

  Kings, Parent, Disrespect

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Human Society in Ethics and Politics”, p.27, Routledge

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• Maybe there would be a bad outcome for some of the others, but no one was going to shoot a soprano.

  Ann Patchett

  Would Be, Sopranos

  Ann Patchett (2009). “Bel Canto”, p.33, Harper Collins

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• You can't outwit fate by standing on the sidelines placing little sidebets about the outcome of life. either you wade in and risk everything you have to play the game or you don't play at all. and if u don't play u can't win.

  Judith McNaught

  Inspirational, Powerful, Fate

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• If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Judging, Action, Should

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• You stayed around your children as long as you could, inhaling the ambient gold shavings of their childhood, and at the last minute you tried to see them off into life and hoped that the little piece of time you’d given them was enough to prevent them from one day feeling lonely and afraid and hopeless. You wouldn’t know the outcome for a long time.

  Meg Wolitzer

  Lonely, Children, Long

  Meg Wolitzer (2008). “The Ten-Year Nap”, p.375, Penguin

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• The measure of happiness is merely the difference between expectations and outcomes. It is not concerned with what one possesses – it is concerned with how content one is with what one possesses.

  Cecilia Dart-Thornton

  Differences, Expectations, Concerned

  Cecilia Dart-Thornton (2011). “The Lady of the Sorrows”, p.13, Pan Macmillan

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• If we can just let go and trust that things will work out they way they're supposed to, without trying to control the outcome, then we can begin to enjoy the moment more fully. The joy of the freedom it brings becomes more pleasurable than the experience itself.

  Goldie Hawn

  Faith, Letting Go, Work Out

  Goldie Hawn (2005). “A Lotus Grows in the Mud”, Putnam Adult

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• I knew, in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late: again, I might have missed my chance. But I would at least know I tried, that I took my heart and extended my hand, whatever the outcome. "Okay," he said. He took a breath. "What would you do, if you could do anything?" I took a step toward him, closing the space between us. "This," I said. And then I kissed him.

  Sarah Dessen

  Heart, Hands, Space

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.262, Penguin

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• How can a novelist achieve atonement when, with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also God? There is no one, no entity or higher form that she can appeal to, or be reconciled with, or that can forgive her. There is nothing outside her. In her imagination she has set the limits and the terms. No atonement for God, or novelists, even if they are atheists. It was always an impossible task, and that was precisely the point. The attempt was all.

  Ian Mcewan

  Atheist, Imagination, Forgiving

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