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We are very influenced by completely automatic things that we have no control over, and we don't know we're doing it.

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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