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Probability is the guide of life.
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The quote means that life often involves uncertainty, so people use what is likely to happen to help choose how to act. Probability does not provide certainty, but it offers a practical guide when outcomes cannot be known in advance.
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- 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, “Butler, Joseph”
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