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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 422217b | He never took his eyes off my face as I told him about Mack, | Mary Higgins Clark | ||
| 6fab65f | The ones who are innocent help because they trust us. And the ones who aren't so innocent pretend to trust us because they're afraid of looking guilty. | Mary Higgins Clark | ||
| 35161ca | Well more than two thirds of the press releases from Douglas MacArthur's command reference only one person - himself. | narcissism self-promotion | Stanley Weintraub | |
| f107b0c | Once home [in 1838], Albert prepared a small album of scenes he had drawn on the journey, a dried 'Rose des Alpes, and a scrap of Voltaire's handwriting he had obtained from an old servant of the philosopher at Verney, and posted the souvenir to Victoria. Years later she attested it was 'one of her greatest treasures. | itv-victoria love pbs-victoria prince-albert queen-victoria romance-quotes royalty the-young-victoria vicbert | Stanley Weintraub | |
| e09fd5f | Rather, both sides fought as soldiers fought in most wars--for survival, and to protect the men who had become extended family. | world-war-i | Stanley Weintraub | |
| 71c7eef | The dreams don't scare me," Abbie said. "It's the opposite. I'm sad to wake up. As if I belong there, in the water, and my bedroom is the dream." | Tananarive Due | ||
| 20bcf0b | How else, except through being alone for a while, could you ever discover who you really are? But | Tananarive Due | ||
| 22df83d | you know everybody has a turn, and you just try to find something interesting every day to make you glad it hasn't happened yet. | mortality purpose | Tananarive Due | |
| 82951dd | I hope you won't mind, my dear, if we take it," said Thunder Karlsson. "Oh, not at all," said Pippi. "Of course not." | Astrid Lindgren | ||
| 5139720 | Das habe ich noch nie vorher versucht. Also bin ich vollig sicher, dass ich es schaffe! | optimismus | Astrid Lindgren | |
| e78b15e | Alskade Lillebror, vad ar det som har hant", sa hon och slog armarna om honom. "Krister har kastat sten pa mej", sa Lillebror argt. "Nej, vet nan vad", sa mamma, "en san elak pojke! Varfor kom du inte in och sa till mej?" Lillebror ryckte pa axlarna. "Vad skulle det vara bra for? Du kan ju inte kasta sten. Du skulle inte kunna pricka ratt pa en lagardsvagg ens en gang." "A, din lilla dumbom", sa mamma. "Inte tror du val att jag tankte kasta.. | childrens-books rocks | Astrid Lindgren | |
| 33a55a1 | Nagon ropade pa mig i drommen och jag seker honom | Astrid Lindgren | ||
| a0b32ef | Pochti na vse zhenshchiny smotreli po-raznomu, no v odnom oni skhodilis': kak prekrasno, kogda tebia khot' inogda ostavliaiut v pokoe i ty mozhesh' ne slushat' etogo oglushitel'nogo muzhskogo khokhota. | Astrid Lindgren | ||
| 7ee35ed | Alles war so uberaus traurig, dass er beschloss, sich auf sein Bett zu legen und ein wenig daruber nachzudenken, wie traurig es eigentlich war. | Astrid Lindgren | ||
| 7988ee6 | In Levitt's view, economics is a science with excellent tools for gaining answers but a serious shortage of interesting questions. His particular gift is the ability to ask such questions. For instance: If drug dealers make so much money, why do they still live with their mothers? Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What really caused crime rates to plunge during the past decade? Do real-estate agents have their clients' best.. | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| 6db7b7a | E sumperiphora ton dioikeseon ton epikheireseon mporei na diorthothei ek bathron, an uparkhei kai to okhi kai toso eukharisto men,pragmatiko de, endekhomeno tes phulakises | John Kenneth Galbraith | ||
| 67e3c84 | The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version. All financial innovation involves in one form or another, the creation of debt secured in greater or lesser adequacy by real assets. | John Kenneth Galbraith | ||
| 1836504 | That economics has a considerable conceptual apparatus with an appropriate terminology can not be a serious ground for complaint. Economic phenomena, ideas, instruments of analysis exist. They require names. Education in economics is, in considerable measure, an introduction to this terminology and to the ideas that it denotes. Anyone who has difficulties with the ideas should complete his education or, following an exceedingly well-beaten .. | writing | John Kenneth Galbraith | |
| cf03927 | the speculative episode always ends not with a whimper but with a bang. | John Kenneth Galbraith | ||
| 3b9775f | Speculation buys up, in a very practical way, the intelligence of those involved. | John Kenneth Galbraith | ||
| 3adadc7 | prime threat hovering over a society of general well-being. | John Kenneth Galbraith | ||
| 4f814ce | Speculation, it has been noted, comes when popular imagination settles on something seemingly new in the field of commerce or finance. | John Kenneth Galbraith | ||
| c467555 | I have sufficiently urged that all suggestions as to financial innovation be regarded with extreme skepticism. Such seeming innovation is merely some variant on an old design, new only in the brief and defective memory of the financial world. | John Kenneth Galbraith | ||
| 7ae517b | Tenure was originally invented to protect radical professors, those who challenged the accepted order. But we don't have such people anymore at the universities, and the reason is tenure. When the time comes to grant it nowadays, the radicals get screened out. That's its principal function. It's a very good system, really - keeps academic life at a decent level of tranquility. | radicals tenure universities | John Kenneth Galbraith | |
| 7daefdd | The process by which money is created is so simply that the mind is repelled. Where something so important is involved, a deeper mystery seems only decent. | John Kenneth Galbraith | ||
| 137eef3 | There are two kinds of forecasters: those who don't know, and those who don't know they don't know," wrote Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith." | Rolf Dobelli | ||
| 1bee8b0 | Financial capacity and political perspicacity are inversely correlated. Long-run salvation by men of business has never been highly regarded if it means disturbance of orderly life and convenience in the present. So inaction will be advocated in the present even though it means deep trouble in the future. Here, at least equally with Communism, lies the threat to Capitalism. It is what causes men who know that things are going quite wrong to.. | John Kenneth Galbraith | ||
| 7168d16 | David Lester, a psychology professor at Richard Stockton College in New Jersey, has likely thought about suicide longer, harder, and from more angles than any other human. In more than twenty-five-hundred academic publications, he has explored the relationship between suicide and, among other things, alcohol, anger, antidepressants, astrological signs, biochemistry, blood type, body type, depression, drug abuse, gun control, happiness, holi.. | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| af88102 | la economia como ciencia consiste fundamentalmente en un conjunto de herramientas, mas que una cuestion de contenido, ningun tema se halla fuera de su alcance. | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| 8eacfad | A growing body of research suggests that even the smartest people tend to seek out evidence that confirms what they already think, rather than new information that would give them a more robust view of reality. | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| 90afb27 | As long as you can tell the difference between a good idea and a bad one, generating a boatload of ideas, even outlandish ones, can only be a good thing. | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| 5e5c499 | Whatever problem you're trying to solve, make sure you're not just attacking the noisy part of the problem that happens to capture your attention. | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| 18b3129 | Government agents sardonically known as the Menstrual Police regularly rounded up women in their workplaces to administer pregnancy tests. If a woman repeatedly failed to conceive, she was forced to pay a steep "celibacy tax." | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| 43b9b11 | Married people, for instance, are demonstrably happier than single people; does this mean that marriage causes happiness? Not necessarily. The data suggest that happy people are more likely to get married in the first place. | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| 40034bd | Don't Burn the Food (SDL) In a sample of thirteen African countries between 1999 and 2004, 52 percent of women surveyed say they think that wife-beating is justified if she neglects the children; around 45 percent think it's justified if she goes out without telling the husband or argues with him; 36 percent if she refuses sex, and 30 percent if she burns the food. And this is what the women think. We live in a strange world. | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| a9ac2c0 | Think about all the time, brainpower, and social or political capital you continued to spend on some commitment only because you didn't like the idea of quitting. | quitting | Steven D. Levitt | |
| cda4c7d | It has long been said that the three hardest words to say in the English language are I love you. We heartily disagree! For most people, it is much harder to say I don't know. That's a shame, for until you can admit what you don't yet know, it's virtually impossible to learn what you need to. | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| 048d603 | The impulse to investigate can only be set free if you stop pretending to know answers that you don't. Because the incentives to pretend are so strong, this may require some bravery on your part. | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| 06bd37a | It was John Kenneth Galbraith, the hyperliterate economic sage, who coined the phrase "conventional wisdom." He did not consider it a compliment. "We associate truth with convenience," he wrote, "with what most closely accords with self-interest and personal well-being or promises best to avoid awkward effort or unwelcome dislocation of life. We also find highly acceptable what contributes most to self-esteem." Economic and social behaviors.. | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| 63b3417 | The next time you encounter such a barrier, imposed by people who lack your imagination and drive and creativity, think hard about ignoring it. Solving a problem is hard enough; it gets that much harder if you've decided beforehand it can't be done. | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| f8e680a | Kangaroo farts, as fate would have it, don't contain methane. | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| 75937e7 | The economic approach is both broader and simpler than that. It relies on data, rather than hunch or ideology, to understand how the world works, to learn how incentives succeed (or fail), how resources get allocated, and what sort of obstacles prevent people from getting those resources, whether they are concrete (like food and transportation) or more aspirational (like education and love). | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| 3169f2b | just because you're great at something doesn't mean you're good at everything. Unfortunately, this fact is routinely ignored by those who engage in--take a deep breath--ultracrepidarianism, or "the habit of giving opinions and advice on matters outside of one's knowledge or competence." | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| 44ea98a | So what does all this mean if you desperately want to persuade someone who doesn't want to be persuaded? The first step is to appreciate that your opponent's opinion is likely based less on fact and logic than on ideology and herd thinking. If you were to suggest this to his face, he would of course deny it. He is operating from a set of biases he cannot even see. As the behavioral sage Daniel Kahneman has written: "We can be blind to the o.. | Steven D. Levitt |