Hirshleifer Quotes & Sayings

There is no way to find the best design except to try out as many designs as possible and discard the failures. — Freeman Dyson

Throughout my life, I have always lived with adversity and will continue to have faith and do good for my family, friends and fans. — Lil' Kim

I like uncovering the cultural prejudices I didn't even know. — A. J. Jacobs

People do more for their fellows than return favors and punish cheaters. They often perform generous acts without the slightest hope for payback ranging from leaving a tip in a restaurant they will never visit again to throwing themselves on a live grenade to save their brothers in arms. [Robert] Trivers together with the economists Robert Frank and Jack Hirshleifer has pointed out that pure magnanimity can evolve in an environment of people seeking to discriminate fair weather friends from loyal allies. Signs of heartfelt loyalty and generosity serve as guarantors of one s promises reducing a partner s worry that you will default on them. The best way to convince a skeptic that you are trustworthy and generous is to be trustworthy and generous. — Steven Pinker

Peter said, his voice as dry as burnt toast. "Can we leave?" Of course they couldn't leave. Not before she'd crossed the room, planted herself in front — Judith Arnold

The two Crabfest eaters pulled out bills one at a time. Then they each opened their change purse as though it were a rusted chastity belt. Heidi — Harlan Coben

I come from a long line of saloon keepers and proselytizers, and I draw from both sides. — Jon Huntsman Jr.

I make sure to use my life for that which can be of goodwill. It has fortified me spiritually and emotionally — Oprah Winfrey

He wants his home and security, he wants to live like a sailor at sea. — Bob Seger

Egypt is the second-largest recipient over a long period of U.S. military and economic aid. Israel is first. — Noam Chomsky

As it developed in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the intellectual movement that went under the name of liberalism emphasized freedom as the ultimate goal and the individual as the ultimate entity in the society. It supported laissez faire at home as a means of reducing the role of the state in economic affairs and thereby enlarging the role of the individual; it supported free trade abroad as a means of linking the nations of the world together peacefully and democratically. In political matters, it supported the development of representative government and of parliamentary institutions, reduction in the arbitrary power of the state, and protection of the civil freedoms of individuals. — Milton Friedman

I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca! — Emanuel Lasker

I would take them a few times, feel my emotions and sense of reality fuzz, and look at my mother who had been doped up on them since we moved to Chattanooga. I would see her blank, hazel eyes, and her bright, but empty, smile with chronic, artificial, exaggerated cheer, and become scared. I often wondered if she was buried under layers upon layers of southern sugar. I would make bitchy, inappropriate statements and look for her. I would say something, anything to shake her and look into her eyes for something real. I saw it when she was upset or afraid. I saw it when she'd spot me exiting my bathroom, hair tied back, knowing what I'd done. I saw it when she found out I was raped. I saw it when I told her about the drugs I used. I saw flickers of a real person, but she quickly disappeared within herself once she gathered composure. I decided not to be like her. Even if it meant embracing my demons, I wanted to be real. After a couple doses, I would toss the meds in the garbage. — Maggie Young

No I'm going to hold you anyway
And I'll do it without shaking
Yes I'll love you always
And I'll do it without aching
Yes I'd give you anything
Yes I'd give you anything
I gave you everything — Tegan Quin

The first horse called Eohippus emerged 60 million years ago. It stood 14 inches high and weighed 12 pounds. — Quiz Bug

I want to get out of the major opera houses. — Renee Fleming