Gilovich 1991 Quotes & Sayings

A man is a beggar who only lives to the useful, and, however he may serve as a pin or rivet in the social machine, cannot be saidto have arrived at self-possession. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I needed someone to tell me how God could allow someone He loved to suffer so much when I wouldn't do this to someone I hated. — Sarah Thebarge

Our memories do not visit us in chronology, and the story we form by joining up the memories involves choices with the purpose of making a whole and finding a pattern. — Zia Haider Rahman

War is what happens when language fails. — Margaret Atwood

Forgetting used to be a failing, a waste, a sign of senility. Now it takes effort. It may be as important as remembering. — James Gleick

It is thus that inanimate objects seem to soak up the essence of living things, and later cause pain or pleasure when we merely look at them. — Margaret George

This is the sum of duty: do naught to others which if done to thee, would cause thee pain. — Vyasa

I don't drink much alcohol. If it doesn't taste like candy or sparkles, I usually don't drink it. — Taylor Swift

And then he kissed me. — Leigh Bardugo

I found a dead body in the cucumber patch,' I told them.
'How very like you,' Ophelia said, and went on preening her eyebrows. — Alan Bradley

Each outbreak, by this view, represents a local event primarily explicable by a larger cause - the arrival of the wave. The main proponent of the wave idea is Peter D. Walsh, an American ecologist who has worked often in Central Africa and specializes in mathematical theory about ecological facts. I think it's spreading from host to host in a reservoir host, — David Quammen