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“Closed systems that thrive on control that is managed with sticks and carrots can't help but fail the people they claim to protect.”

Book:Flee, Be Silent, Pray: An Anxious Evangelical Finds Peace with God through Contemplative Prayer

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“Consider the following fact. Sweden accounts for approximately 1 percent of the world economy. A rational investor in the United States or Japan would invest about 1 percent of his assets in Swedish stocks. Can it make sense for Swedish investors to invest 48 times more? No. [T]his reflects the well-known tendency of investors to buy stocks from their home country, something that economists refer to as the home bias.”

Cognitive Bias Heuristics Economic Reasoning Home Bias

Author:Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein

“There are many counterintuitive and surprising ways companies can boost users'' motivation or increase their ability by understanding heuristics - the mental shortcuts we take to make decisions and form opinions”

Advertising Heuristics People Online Behaviour

Book:Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Source: Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

“More than friends, eh? More than friends... You know, my mother once told me that half of the hatred that springs up between people is rooted in this mistaken belief that there's any human relationship more sacred than friendship.”

Relationships Friendship Advice

Book:Gingerbread

Source: Gingerbread

“...he was more of a poltergeist than a lodger”

Poltergeist Lodger

Book:Pnin

Source: Pnin

“The world is uncertain except when we make decisions of certainty.”

Inspirational Self Improvement Confidence And Attitudedence

Book:Flavors of Confidence: A Reflection for Those in Need

Source: Flavors of Confidence: A Reflection for Those in Need

“So, fuck ’em, we say. Fuck the mundane of Mainstream, the elitists of Literature. We’re GENRE FICTION and proud of it, proud to wear that brand painted on the backs of our biker’s jackets.”

Literature Proud Mainstream Mundane Brand Genre Fiction Elitists

Book:Rhapsody: Notes on Strange Fictions

Source: Rhapsody: Notes on Strange Fictions

“Remember what punishments befell us in this world when we ourselves did not cherish learning nor transmit it to other men.”

Learning Intelligence British History Anglo Saxon England King Alfred Anglo Saxon History

Author:Ælfrēd of Wessex

“Alfred found learning dead, and he restored it. Education neglected, and he revived it. The laws powerless, and he gave them force. The Church debased, and he raised it. The land ravaged by a fearful enemy, from which he delivered it. Alfred's name will live as long as mankind shall respect the past.”

Epitaph King Alfred

Author:Epitaph to Alfred the Great

“Alfred ought never to be confused with King Arthur, equally memorable but probably non-existent and therefore perhaps less important historically (unless he did exist).”

Humour King Arthur King Alfred

Book:1066 and all that: A memorable history of England

Source: 1066 and all that: A memorable history of England

“تاب آوردن زندگي دشوار است: اما خود را چنين نازپرورده منماي! ما همه نرينه و مادينه خران خوش خط و خال باركشيم”

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Book:Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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