Cicero, Roman philosopher and statesman.[/caption]Cicero recounted the following story:
A non-believer named Diagoras was shown painted tablets depicting some worshipers who had prayed and then survived a shipwreck.
Diagoras was not impressed. He wondered about the portraits of those worshipers who had prayed but still drowned.
Apparently, drowned worshipers told no tales.
Think of this story the next time
- you think the supermarket queue you join always moves slowly. Is it because you tend not to remember the times when queues move fast?
- someone tells you that dropping out of university is a smart career move ever since Bill Gates left Harvard to found Microsoft. People and the media do not seem to talk a lot about university dropouts who end up with mediocre careers
- an astrological prediction seems to come true
- you meet a rude person
- you read the story of how the self-exiled New Castle mining magnate Nathan Tinkler literally punted his house on a risky mining venture and amassed a fortune within the span of a few years
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