91602 Quotes & Sayings

Fundamental to our analysis is the assumption that the population, as individuals or groups, behaves "rationally," that it calculates costs and benefits to the extent that they can be related to different courses of action, and makes choices accordingly. ... Consequently, influencing popular behavior requires neither sympathy nor mysticism, but rather a better understanding of what costs and benefits the individual or the group is concerned with, and how they are calculated. — Malcolm Gladwell

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I've always mistrusted that sort o' learning as leaves folks foolish and unreasonable about business. — George Eliot

A bird's wing, comrades," he said, "is an organ of propulsion and not of manipulation. It should therefore be regarded as a leg. — George Orwell

Honda ... knew that to retain Kiyoaki's affection he must check the unthinking roughness that friendship ordinarily permitted. He had to treat him as warily as one would a freshly painted wall, on which the slightest careless touch would leave an indelible fingerprint. Should the circumstances demand it, he would have to go so far as to pretend not to notice Kiyoaki's mortal agony. Especially if such assumed obtuseness served to point up the elegance that would surely characterize Kiyoaki's ultimate suffering. At such moments, Honda could even love Kiyoaki for the look of mute appeal in his eyes. Their beautiful gaze seemed to hold a plea: leave things as they are, as gloriously undefined as the line of the seashore. — Yukio Mishima

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle.

The fate of the bridges is to be lonely; because bridges are to cross not to stay! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over. — Juan Gabriel Vasquez