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“Disputants often fare poorly when they each act greedily and deceptively.”

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Howard Raiffa was a prominent scholar in the fields of decision theory, game theory, and negotiation strategy. His research had a profound impact on business, politics, and academia. more

“There is not such a mighty difference as some men imagine between the poor and the rich; in pomp, show, and opinion, there is a great deal, but little as to the pleasures and satisfactions of life. They enjoy the same earth and air and heavens; hunger and thirst make the poor man's meat and drink as pleasant and relishing as all the varieties which cover the rich man's table; and the labor of a poor man is more healthful, and many times more pleasant, too, than the ease and softness of the rich.”

“There is no dispute managed without passion, and yet there is scarce a dispute worth a passion.”

Passion Controversy Disputes Scarce

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“Sins may be forgiven through repentance, but no act of wit will ever justify them.”

May Sin Wit Justify Repentance Forgiven

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“Nothing is truly infamous, but what is wicked; and therefore shame can never disturb an innocent and virtuous mind.”

Mind Shame Innocent Wicked Virtuous Infamous

Author:Thomas Sherlock

“Those men who destroy a healthful constitution of body by intemperance as manifestly kill themselves as those who hang or poison or drown themselves.”

Men Body Constitution Suicide Poison Intemperance

Author:Thomas Sherlock

“If the Father begat the Son, he that was begotten had a beginning of existence: and from this it is evident, that there was a time when the Son was not. It therefore necessarily follows, that he had his substance from nothing.”

Ifs Father Existence Son Substance Evident

Author:Arius

“My wardrobe is like a garden oh, I don't know how I've got the gall! My wardrobe is just like a wardrobe it's not like a garden at all!”

Knows Know How Garden Wardrobe

Author:Attila the Stockbroker

“I am one of a team of Iraqi weapons inspectors currently travelling through the United Kingdom under very difficult conditions searching for weapons of mass distraction.”

Difficult United Team Conditions Weapons Mass Kingdoms Distraction United Kingdom Inspectors

Author:Attila the Stockbroker

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was Gotcha!”

“I write about power, that's my real subject - how you get it, what you do with it, how you abuse it. I'm equally wary of liberals and conservatives.”

Writing Real Subjects Abuse

Author:Rene Balcer

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