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If you're going to be unreligious, it's likely going to be due to reflecting on it and finding some things that are hard to believe.

Daniel Kahneman

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Daniel Kahneman
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 5
Economist
Psychologist
University Teacher
Tel Aviv
Israel
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