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“And your brain doesn't naturally know how to think the way Zeckhauser knows how to play bridge. "for example," people do not react symmetrically to loss and gain. Well maybe a great bridge player like Zeckhauser does, but that's a trained response. Ordinary people, subconsciously affected by their inborn tendencies.”

People Thinking Knows Way Wells Doe Play Loss Brain Know How Player Example Ordinary Gains Response Tendencies Bridges Affected Ordinary People

Author:Charlie Munger

“God delights in providing His people with material gain and comfort, although prosperity can pose a threat to spiritual well-being.”

People Wells Spiritual Materials Comfort Gains Threat Prosperity Delight Well Being Providing

Author:Max Anders

“Our politics suffers from a shortage of people who put character and country before career and personal gain.”

People Country Character Suffering Careers Gains Shortage Personal Gain

Author:Cal Thomas

“If you seek to serve people more than to gain power, you will not only serve people, you will gain influence.”

People Ifs Influence Gains

Author:Timothy Keller

“I worry that business leaders are more interested in material gain than they are in having the patience to build up a strong organization, and a strong organization starts with caring for their people.”

People Strong Leader Worry Materials Gains Organization Caring Business Leaders

Author:John Wooden

“If people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that's a good discussion. Maybe that's the way to help close the deficit.”

People Ifs Way Want Helping Highest Gains Rate Income Discussion Deficit Capital Gains

Author:Bill Gates

“People will do more to avoid pain than they will do to gain pleasure.”

People Pain Pleasure Gains

Book:Awaken The Giant Within

Source: Awaken The Giant Within

“I experienced firsthand not only the mental and physical damage being unhealthy does to a person, but I also recognized the discrimination many overweight people faced because of their public image. And I, like everyone else, is susceptible to falling into negative patterns that can cause weight gain.”

People Persons Doe Fall Causes Gains Negative Weight Patterns Discrimination Damage Unhealthy Overweight Susceptible Public Image

Author:Maria Kang

“It's a nonsense assumption that you can get rid of terrorism with war. Terrorism is taking the lives of innocent people to gain your objective. War is basically the same thing on a larger scale.”

People War Gains Terrorism Scales Objectives Innocent Assumption Nonsense

Author:Gene Sharp

“'Rugged individualism' has meant all the 'individualism' for the masters, while the people are regimented into a slave caste to serve a handful of self-seeking 'supermen.' America is perhaps the best representative of this kind of individualism, in whose name political tyranny and social oppression are defended and held up as virtues; while every aspiration and attempt of man to gain freedom and social opportunity to live is denounced as 'un-American' and evil in the name of that same individuality.”

“Many people who gain recognition and fame shape their lives by overcoming seemingly insurmountable obstacles, only to be catapulted into new social realities over which they have less control and manage badly. Indeed, the annals of the famous and infamous are strewn with individuals who were both architects and victims of their life courses.”

People Reality Courses Individual Social Shapes Fame Gains Overcoming Victim Obstacles Manage Recognition Live By Architect Infamous Insurmountable

Author:Albert Bandura

“One, gains an unmistakable impression that the Sky- God wanted to communicate with people of various folk religions all the time, but for His own mysterious reasons maintained a policy of restraint until the arrival of Yahweh's testimony! This is surely a powerful exta-biblical evidence for the authenticity of the Bible as revelation from the one true and universal God!”

People Reason Wanted Powerful Sky Policy Evidence Gains Universal Folks Various Communicate Impression Authenticity Mysterious Revelations Biblical Restraint Testimony Arrivals Yahweh

Author:Don Richardson

“There is a cultural norm on the left of being afraid to declare victory, which is related to the binary of reform/revolution. Whereas reformists are winning small gains, revolutionaries don't want people to be satisfied with those small victories because they worry this will lead to acceptance of the bigger picture of capitalism domination, and so they find a way to turn every victory into a defeat. In the book, I call for a culture of declaring victory wherever we can.”

“You build movements and keep people in a struggle when it feels productive. Anti-capitalists have typically been the people in movements who have declared every gain to be a trick of the capitalist class to buy us off. That line isn't very inspiring, and it shows no sensitivity to how social movements actually succeed.”

People Feels Shows Social Lines Class Struggle Movement Succeed Gains Tricks Productive Capitalist Sensitivity Social Movements Very Inspiring

Author:Cynthia Kauffman

“People discuss their relationships all the time, but you can't. I don't think people realize how harmful that is, how it twists you up to hide who you are. It's not healthy, and the great gains that homosexuals have made in my lifetime, I think that we'll look back in twenty or thirty years and say, "I can't believe we ever made them go through that."”

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Author:David Sedaris

“If you destroy the credibility of those people or institutions that could undermine your own, you create an opportunity for your voice, however irresponsible or misleading it may be, to gain traction.”

People Ifs May Opportunity Voice Gains Institutions Credibility Mislead Irresponsible Traction

Author:John Yarmuth

“I have never been able to understand why the tax comes as such a body blow to many people since the rate on long-term capital gain is lower than on most likes of endeavor (tax policy indicated digging ditches is regarded as socially less desirable than shuffling stock certificates).”

People Long Body Able Term Policy Taxes Gains Rate Blow Likes Long Term Endeavor Desirable Digging Certificates Shuffling Capital Gains Digging Ditches

Author:Warren Buffett

“If we were to gain God's perspective, even for a moment, and were to look at the way we go through life accumulating and hoarding and displaying our things, we would have the same feelings of horror and pity that any sane person has when he views people in an asylum endlessly beating their heads against the wall.”

People Ifs Way Looks Persons Moments Feelings Views Perspective Wall Horror Gains Pity Sane Asylums Hoarding

Book:Money, Possessions, and Eternity

Source: Money, Possessions, and Eternity

“You can be a couple in London who happen to take pictures of their breakfasts every day - it's called @symmetrybreakfast - and you can gain hundreds of thousands of followers overnight because people are genuinely interested in your unique angle on the world.”

People World Happens Couple Unique Gains London Breakfast Followers Angle

Author:Kevin Systrom

“A lot of people would enter restricted sites just to say they can, and then log out. Today, everything related to hacking seems to be for monetary gain.”

People Seems Today Gains Related Site Monetary Hacking

Author:Michael Demon Calce

“We got to make sure that we have the incentives for people to rise and not put them in a position of where they go to work and they lose more than what they gain and they're like this system is terrible.”

People Loses Position Terrible Gains Incentives

Author:John Kasich

“I'm not a big guy that believes that you gain energy from demonizing other people. I think you gain energy from giving people hope.”

People Thinking Giving Believe Bigs Guy Energy Gains Big Guys

Author:John Kasich

“I can't blame anyone for being pessimistic when they look around, after all the blood spilled and energy spent to gain ground for working people in the past, and see it all happening again. I wasn't pointing a finger when I wrote the book, but sometimes the message is there even when you aren't actively trying to be the messenger.”

People Trying Looks I Can Book Sometimes Past Energy Blood Messages Happenings Gains Blame Fingers Pointing Pessimistic Messengers Happening Again People From The Past

Author:James Vance

“I do think whatever the short-term gain for [Donald]Trump might've been by skipping the Fox debate, it was also kind of - it could become a landmark moment. He has now showed the media that he doesn't need them and that he has the people behind him.”

People Thinking Needs Kind Moments Might Term Behinds Media Trump Gains Debate Foxes Short Term Landmarks

Author:Ryan Grim

“I think you can blame certain police officers for certain behavior, you can blame certain departments for certain behavior, and power and so forth, but, ultimately, I'd say it's about us, and it's about society, and I say - even if its sounds a little controversial - put the police aside for a second. It's really not about them. It's about the game that's been created to keep the status quo going and to let the people who own it all gain from the game.”

People Ifs Thinking Littles Certain Games Sound Behavior Gains Police Blame Department Officers Status Quo Controversial Police Officer

Author:Oren Moverman

“Population diminishing, even in Japan and Italy, the population is diminishing. When society can reach a sustainable place or gain comfortable income, then people tend to have fewer children. Poverty makes a chain reaction of having many children. So when society reaches some kind of level, then it will turn toward getting a smaller population.”

People Kind Children Turns Levels Poverty Comfortable Gains Population Income Reactions Chains Japan Fewer Chain Reactions

Author:Hiroshi Sugimoto

“I don't like to get too involved in the idea that "I'm a role model" and that everything I do is right. I don't think that's the case at all, but I think who I am at my core, and what I represent at my core, is something that is meaningful, and can be something that other people can gain inspiration from.”

People Thinking Ideas Inspiration Roles Cases Involved Models Gains Meaningful Core Who I Am Role Models

Author:Mike Vallely

“For me, when I do a show is to make sure that I gain some new people.”

People Shows Gains

Author:Torae

“We slowly work on getting more markets. We slowly work on building relationships. And over time once we gain people's trust and they see what we do and they see what we deliver each and every show, more and more people are interested in jumping on the Ring Of Honour train. I definitely think the success will continue.”

People Thinking Shows Building Gains Train Rings Honour Jumping Building Relationships

Author:Adam Cole

“I hope that one day I will gain power somehow, and somehow convince myself that there is still hope and go back and fight, people who's trying to make that place worth living for both Jews and Palestinians.”

People Trying Stills Fighting One Day Gains Jew Convince Palestinian Worth Living

Author:Sayed Kashua

“I think people who want to use genetic technologies to gain a competitive edge for their children are engaging in a kind of overreaching that could really undermine our appreciation of children as gifts for which we should be grateful and, instead, to view them as products or instruments that are there to be molded and directed.”

People Thinking Want Should Kind Children Use Views Technology Products Gains Instruments Grateful Edges Appreciation Be Grateful Engaging Overreaching

Author:Michael Sandel

“Some songs, some nights won't do anything for you, but people enjoy them and that's the job. The magic is finding those places to stand in the song and gain perspective.”

People Jobs Night Song Enjoy Magic Perspective Findings Gains

Author:Justin Vernon

“There's a new line of research showing that people who don't get enough sleep, they're body doesn't metabolize as well. And so they actually - it leads to weight gain. So if you're not getting enough sleep, you might have difficulty losing weight.”

People Ifs Wells Enough Body Might Lines Sleep Losing Research Gains Weight Difficulty Enough Sleep

Author:Shelby Harris

“I have to do what I'm doing at the time. That's the most important thing. You might lose some people along the way, and you might gain other people on the way, that's just the way it is. But nevertheless, if you're driven by something, there is no argument about it; that's what you have to do.”

People Ifs Way Important Might Loses Gains Argument Important Things Driven Nevertheless

Author:Paul Weller

“We are more put off by people who parade their dignity than by people who show off their wardrobes. When people have to trick themselves out to gain attention, it is a sure sign that they are unworthy of it. If we want to make ourselves worthy, we can do so only by the innate eminence conferred by virtue. We hold great people in esteem more for the qualities of their soul than for the qualities of their fortune.”

“I firmly believe that volunteering is good for our society and brings communities together. It's a fantastic opportunity to get involved in your local community, to meet new people and to gain a sense of pride and achievement.”

People Believe Together Opportunity Community Pride Involved Achievement Gains Locals Fantastic Our Society Volunteer Get Involved Meeting New People Local Community

Author:Boris Johnson

“I would like to say, historically, from the very beginning, our people have time and again expressed the need for people to live in harmony with the creator, the mother earth, fellow man, and respect our brother's vision. In the past and the present, we have been respon-sible for the greatest gains; cultivated foods and medicines; democratic government, and many other areas of concern.”

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Author:Leonard Peltier

“I think people think their incomes have been flat lining for a long period of time. They feel that the next generation's opportunities are not going to be improvement. So and I also think that social media then allows insurgent movements to gain scale at speed.”

“Some [people] think that there is a central organization responsible for all the institutions they wrongly think affiliated with me. They ignore the zeal of many to serve humanity and to gain God's good pleasure in doing so. They ignore people's generosity. Such misunderstandings may lead others to have suspicions about the financial resources of the schools.”

People Thinking May School Humanity Pleasure Gains Resources Organization Responsible Institutions Financial Generosity Suspicion Misunderstanding Zeal Financial Resources Ignoring People

Author:Fethullah Gulen

“Historically, if you look back at the struggle to end slavery, the struggle to gain womens' right to vote, the labor movement - these were big social transitions in which there was a movement on the ground in which a lot of people died, but it also took an independent political party.”

People Ifs Looks Ends Bigs Political Social Party Struggle Movement Gains Labor Vote Died Independent Slavery Transition Political Parties Right To Vote Labor Movement

Author:Jill Stein

“The interests behind fracking are very powerful and they've managed to control the dialogue for a while, because they have forced people to sign disclosure agreements; people who have had negative experiences who are not able to speak out because they've signed disclosure agreements with the gas companies. Things like this. They've managed to strangle the opposing viewpoint, but it does seem like the people who are against fracking have started to gain some traction and the realities of what an environmental nightmare it is are starting to become known.”

“What I'm OK with is protecting the American people. What I'm OK with is, when people have the intent to come to this country and take American lives, that we are prepared to do what's necessary to gain the information to protect the people of this country.”

People Country Information Protect Gains Prepared American Life

Author:Mike Pence

“Cities with clean air gain an economic advantage, because where people want to live and work, businesses want to invest.”

People Want Cities Air Economic Gains Advantage Clean Clean Air

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“How you educate the people around you, what steps you take toward making it better, what sacrifices you make. The equation of life is simple: There's no gain without pain. For whatever reason, that's the way this world was designed in every facet. It's the same thing, there has to be a sacrifice.”

People World Way Reason Pain Life Is Simple Steps Sacrifice This World Gains Educate Equations Facets Without Pain Life Is Simple

Author:Andrew Hawkins

“No path to citizenship. People that want to gain legal status, you heard Donald Trump say again and again, will have to leave the country.”

People Want Country Path Heard Trump Gains Again And Again Citizenship

Author:Mike Pence

“Mr. Washington apologizes for injustice, he belittles the emasculating effects of caste distinctions, and opposes the higher training and ambitions of our brighter minds. The way for people to gain their reasonable rights is not by voluntarily throwing them away.”

People Way Mind Rights Effects Higher Ambition Training Gains Injustice Reasonable Distinction Throwing Apologizing Brighter Castes Belittle

Author:W. E. B. Du Bois

“It's an honour and a privilege to meet people who look at you as their idol , they actually lose weight and gain muscle because of you. I can only tell them thank you for letting me be that person for them.”

People Looks Persons I Can Loses Gains Weight Privilege Muscles Honour Idols Lose Weight Because Of You

Author:Phil Heath

“Surely the world will be a better place, at least marginally, if people have a better understanding of Kant and Hegel, if Marx's thought its studied and appreciated, if people gain a better understanding of Fichte, whose philosophy is far more important than people realize.”

People Ifs World Important Philosophy Understanding Realizing Gains Better Place Appreciated Hegel

Author:Allen W. Wood

“It is sad to witness the persistence in our society of the racism and xenophobia that seems to be a permanent part of our political culture. It is shameful to see politicians exploiting these human weaknesses in order to gain political power. It is most depressing of all to contemplate a future in which politicians who do this will continue to have influence over people's lives.”

“Law enforcement has always had informants and people they've had to deal with, who walk a certain line. They're choosing between the lesser of two evils. They're befriend one person to gain access to another person, who's a bigger fish.”

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Author:Mike Colter

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