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“individuals are honest only to the extent that suits them (including their desire to please others)”

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One of the big lessons from behavioral economics is that we make decisions as a function of the environment that we're in.

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Not all debt is bad. From time to time we should get into debt when there's a good reason for that.

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“This result suggests that cheating is not driven by concerns about standing out. Rather, it shows that our sense of our own morality is…

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“ONE OF THE main differences between standard and behavioral economics involves this concept of “free lunches.” According to the assumptions of standard economics, all human decisions are rational and informed, motivated by an accurate concept of the worth of all goods and services and the amount of happiness (utility) all decisions are likely to produce. Under this set of assumptions,…

Money is all about opportunity cost. Every time you spend on something, that's something you can't spend on something else.

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The people that lend you money basically give you an answer based on the risk that they are willing to take. But just because a bank is willing to take a particular risk doesn't mean that that is the right amount for me to spend.

“Upton Sinclair once noted, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”)”

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If you get people to feel that they are putting something, that they are creating it and so on, their love for the project…

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I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial…

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Passion is what you need to be good, an unforgiving passion.

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I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is…

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Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes…

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I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is…

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On the brink of being satiated, desire still appears infinite.

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If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the…

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her up, though tottering himself. He felt as if his head were filled with smoke; flashes of light slipped through his eyelids; his thoughts vanished; it seemed to him that he was performing a religious act, and…

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not…

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“The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.”

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In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded me for having an excess of feeling, saying that I was too sensitive - as if one could be in danger from feeling too much instead of too little. But my outsize emotions were well represented…

I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I…

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