Rantau Quotes & Sayings

That was the cold equation. How many lives is one person, even a totally innocent person, going to be worth? — Mira Grant

The crowd is just as important as the group. It takes everything to make it work. — Levon Helm

Every poker player, like every fisherman, needs to have a story in a box, and most poker stories are completely uninteresting. — Jason Alexander

When you struggle with a problem, that's when you understand it. — Elon Musk

Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth? — Charlotte Bronte

Being on the ballot is a lot different than getting in. — Orel Hershiser

Painful events leave scars, true, but it turns out they're largely erasable. Jill Bolte Taylor, the neuroanatomist who had a stroke that obliterated her memory, described the event as losing '37 years of emotional baggage.' — Martha Beck

My life is not merely a public phenomenon, it is a solitary adventure as well. — Tom Robbins

Creativity is not the property of artists alone. It's a basic element of the human character, no matter what culture you're in, no matter where you are on Earth or in history. — Bill Viola

But if all maximizing models are really arguing is that "people will always seek to maximize something," then they obviously can't predict anything, which means employing them can hardly be said to make anthropology more scientific. All they really add to analysis is a set of assumptions about human nature. The assumption, most of all, that no one ever does anything primarily out of concern for others; that whatever one does, one is only trying to get something out of it for oneself. In common English, there is a word for this attitude. It's called "cynicism." Most of us try to avoid people who take it too much to heart. In economics, apparently, they call it "science. — David Graeber