One of the major biases in risky decision making is optimism. Optimism is a source of high-risk thinking.
I can score 20 points if I want to, but that's not my desire.
People are threatened by me. Rich white, rich blacks, it doesn't matter.
My rookie year, I was very immature.
My last year with the Spurs, I was late to practice one time.
My feet are like gnarled old tree branches.
Maybe my life isn't great. We don't have all the answers. Look at it from my side.
Among all the liberal arts, the first is logic, and specifically that part of logic which gives initial instruction about words. . . . [T]he word "logic" has a broad meaning, and is not restricted exclusively to the science of argumentative reasoning. [It includes] Grammar [which] is "the science of speaking and writing correctly-the starting point of all liberal studies. "
Once a sage asked why scholars always flock to the doors of the rich, whilst the rich are not inclined to call at the doors of scholars. ‘The scholars‘ he answered , ‘are well aware of the use of money, but the rich are ignorant of the nobility of science. ’
We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.
Myth does not want to be interpreted in cosmological terms but in anthropological terms or, better, in existentialist terms.