“When everybody in a group is susceptible to similar biases, groups are inferior to individuals, because groups tend to be more extreme than individuals.” IndividualGroupsClubsExtremesInferiorsSusceptible Author:Daniel Kahneman
“What is enthralling and illuminating about The Metaphysical Club is its portraits of individuals and their milieus. Menand is wonderfully deft at evoking a climate of ideas or a cultural sensibility, embodying it in a character, and moving his characters into and out of one another's lives. What might have been a jumble of intellectual movements and colorful minor figures (...) is instead a subtle weave of entertaining narrative and astute interpretation.” Has BeensIdeasCharacterMightMovingIndividualFiguresMovementIntellectualClimateClubsNarrativeSubtleInterpretationEntertainingMinorsSensibilityPortraitsMetaphysicalMight Have BeenColorfulIlluminatingMilieuAstute Author:George Scialabba
“As soon as you put men together, they somehow sink, corporatively, below the level of the worst of the individuals composing it. Collect scholars on a club committee, or men of science on a jury; all their virtues vanish, and their vices pop out, reinforced by the self-confidence which the power of numbers is bound to bestow.” MenSelfTogetherIndividualLevelsNumbersVirtueWorstBoundsVicesClubsPopsSelf ConfidenceScholarCommitteesJuryComposing Author:Aleister Crowley
“I'm always trying to be the best, on and off the pitch, is also very important. I've always taken things very seriously, since I was very young, and that's reflected in my career. Always being nominated, winning trophies for the club or individual awards, that's the culmination of many years of dedication, hard work and professionalism and that makes me very happy.” TryingYearsImportantHardYoungWinningIndividualCareersTakenHard WorkClubsBeing The BestAwardsDedicationVery HappyAlways TryingTrophiesProfessionalismAnd OffCulmination Author:Cristiano Ronaldo
“I'm not only my spirit buy my body, and who can decide how much I, my individual self, am conditioned by the accident of my body? Would Byron have been Byron but for his club foot, or Dostoyevsky Dostoyevsky without his epilepsy?” Has BeensSelfBodySpiritIndividualFeetClubsAccidentsDostoyevskyByronEpilepsy Author:W. Somerset Maugham
“I like going to rifle and pistol clubs and joining them in target shooting. I also share the same respect for individual initiative and love of family.” IndividualShareAnd LoveClubsShootingTargetInitiativeJoiningFamily LoveRiflesPistolsTarget Shooting Author:Nan Hayworth