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  We, as people, are generally irrational. Just because we know we shouldn’t do something doesn’t mean we won’t do that thing. There’s obvious traps that people fall for all of the time. So ideally, one would think because we know this quote, we should live according to it. But often times we don’t, despite knowing it.
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  They say don't judge a book by it's cover, but they also say a picture paints more than a 1000 words. >
  
  No, they don't.  They say a picture paints a thousand words.  No one says "a picture paints more than a one thousand words". >
  
  A thousand words and not one more! >
  
  But isn't that kind of a meta argument?  Because the cover designers know the saying, too? An infinite loop of trying to sell books by their covers to people who are told to do the opposite, only to come up with new schemes of color, etc, to attract eyes.   And then repeat