Richter Abend Quotes & Sayings

Statin drugs are meant to lower cholesterol in your blood. But there is an asymmetry, and a severe one. One needs to treat fifty high risk persons for five years to avoid a single cardiovascular event. Statins can potentially harm people who are not very sick, for whom the benefits are either minimal or totally nonexistent. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed. — Rumi

There is no passion, more spectral or fantastical than hate, not even its opposite, love, so peoples air, with phantoms, as this madness of the heart. — Lord Byron

I like situations that force me to rethink things. — Marc Almond

Every action of giving creates an opposite action of receiving and what you receive is always equal to what you've given. Whatever you give out in life, must return to you. It is the physics and the mathematics of the universe. — Rhonda Byrne

A person may be a moron or an imbecile if he is lacking in judgment; but with good judgment he can never be either. Indeed the rest of the intellectual faculties seem of little importance in comparison with judgment. — Alfred Binet

We've lost 3,000 jobs in Beaufort County. We've lost half of our manufacturing workforce. — Tommy Thompson

Heltah Skeltah-meets-Portishead would be like the Brand New Heavies Hip Hop album, something like that. That's dope, word. — Sean Price

We know the costs of Europe. What are the benefits? — Nigel Farage

Now ballads, I can mess around and get up on somebody on a ballad. People ain't seen it yet, but I can mess around and get up in there. I've had Ruben Studdard up in my house, Brian McKnight, Tank. Every once in a while I throw down with them. — Jamie Foxx

He was everything your mother warned you about when she told you not to walk alone in the dark. — Nenia Campbell

Hunger makes a thief of any man. — Pearl S. Buck

Life no longer felt meaningless. It felt stressful and terrifying, but it definitely didn't feel meaningless. — Donald Miller

The authors pointed out that nearly all research in psychology is conducted on a very small subset of the human population: people from cultures that are Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (forming the acronym WEIRD). They then reviewed dozens of studies showing that WEIRD people are statistical outliers; they are the least typical, least representative people you could study if you want to make generalizations about human nature. Even within the West, Americans are more extreme outliers than Europeans, and within the United States, the educated upper middle class (like my Penn sample) is the most unusual of all. — Jonathan Haidt