Naujoji Gvineja Quotes & Sayings

Some important factor doesn't lose its "share of force" just because some "expert" can better measure other types of force. — Charlie Munger

The average man takes life as a trouble. He is in a chronic state of irritation at the whole performance. He does not learn to differentiate between troubles and difficulties, usually, until some real trouble bowls him over. He fusses about pin-pricks until a mule kicks him. Then he learns the difference. — Herbert Newton Casson

I have come to the conclusion that executions solve nothing, and are only an antiquated relic of a primitive desire for revenge which takes the easy way and hands over the responsibility for revenge to other people ... The trouble with the death penalty has always been that nobody wanted it for everybody, but everybody differed about who should get off. — Albert Pierrepoint

The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty. — Thomas Adams

I'm not reckless. I was never reckless. — Richard Hammond

Jumping to conclusions is efficient if the conclusions are likely to be correct and the costs of an occasional mistake acceptable. Jumping to conclusions is risky when the situation is unfamiliar, the stakes are high and there is no time to collect more information. — Daniel Kahneman