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We have associations to things. We have, you know, we have associations to tables and to - and to dogs and to cats and to Harvard professors, and that's the way the mind works. It's an association machine.

Daniel Kahneman

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Daniel Kahneman
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 5
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