Dodecahedral Geometry Quotes & Sayings

information costs," is not the way to maximize one's investment. The true maximizer would determine just how much information seeking was the amount needed to lead to a very good decision. — Barry Schwartz

How generously they shower us with food, literally giving themselves so that we can live. But in the giving their lives are also ensured. Our taking returns benefit to them in the circle of life making life, the chain of reciprocity. Living by the precepts of the Honorable Harvest - to take only what is given, to use it well, to be grateful for the gift, and to reciprocate the gift — Robin Wall Kimmerer

To me it was plain silly. It is so obvious that life works in terms of species rather than individuals. The individual just has to be born, to develop to the point at which it can procreate, and then to fall away into death to make way for its successors, and humans are no exception whatever they may fancy. — Diana Athill

That's a big responsibility, and the details obsess me. And, also, I no longer feel I have to do the Tonight Show every time I open my mouth. Twenty years ago, I told myself I'd rather direct than act, and it's taken me this long. You lose your passion in acting. You make too many mistakes. Maybe that's why I make so many movies; if you don't like this one, another one's opening on Tuesday. But then I spent six months of my life on 'At Long Last Love,' a picture nobody saw. I enjoyed making it, I learned from it, I grew, but that's too much time out of my life. — Burt Reynolds

It's smarter to be lucky than it's lucky to be smart. — Laura Lippman

People who are fully alive look out of their minds to those who simply exist. — Erwin McManus

I'm a much nicer person, much more laid-back and relaxed, not serious like they show me. — Olivia Palermo

I vote, I participate, I am present, I am concerned - mirror of a paradoxical mockery, mirror of the indifference of all public signification. — Jean Baudrillard

Books have the power to create, destroy or change civilization. — Zaman Ali

I understand then that giving me the computer is not really a gift. But maybe my taking it is. — Gayle Forman

May I never be a tough guy, just a genuine one. — Tom Althouse

The Pharisee isn't loving his neighbor as God's law requires - instead, he looks down on his neighbors, so he can feel good about himself. He doesn't love God with all his heart, soul, mind and strength, as the law says: he's using God for his own ego-grooming. He's like a terrible date: "Nice to meet you. Now let me talk about myself for an hour. — Nick McDonald

You're a demon," I said. "I feel like a bride guarding my virginity before the wedding." "Well, then feel free to give it up, Ryan," she said, pushing up onto her toes to kiss me. — Christina Lauren