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What popular quote are you tired of hearing? (lemmy.world)

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Bonus points if it's usually misused/misunderstood by the people who say it

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[-] Fogle@lemmy.ca 28 points 9 months ago

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting a different result. And as far as I can tell Einstein never said it but it's always attributed to Einstein

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 8 points 8 months ago

If I just rolled a 6 I'm not going to expect the same result if I roll the die again.

[-] flying_gel@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

I would argue that you didn't roll the die the exact same way...

Of course there could be other things other than your movements like wind that also affects the outcome.

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago

Right, so even if I'm doing the same thing I'm not doing it in the exact same way, so the result may be different.

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