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when it comes to fashion, even the most sensible woman is not to be trusted.

Above all, this book is not concerned with Poetry,The subject of it is War, and the pity of War.The Poetry is in the pity.All a poet can do is warn.

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.

Mysticism' here means, in the literal sense, a change of sensory impressions and organ sensations into something unreal and beyond this world.

Coercion may prevent many transgressions but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.

The attitude of physiological psychology to sensations and feelings, considered as psychical elements, is, naturally, the attitude of psychology at large.

I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.

Dont speak of tomorrow.Let the music speak to us tonight,in a happier language than ours.

No, Arrested Development was such an amazing experience in every way, and you know it was very unique in that it was a show that received a lot of critical acclaim, and yet we didn't ever achieve the ratings that we wanted.

In the end, all that a writer has to pass on is not myth and anecdote, but scene and character, evoked in memorable prose.

Our understanding of cognitive ease and associative coherence locates subjective confidence firmly in System 1.

the proper way to elicit information from a group is not by starting with a public discussion but by confidentially collecting each person's judgment.

The Robust Beauty of Improper Linear Models in Decision Making.

representativeness can block the application of an obvious logical rule is also of some interest.

The list of situations and tasks that are now known to deplete self-control is long and varied. All involve conflict and the need to suppress a natural tendency. They include:

Most importantly, of course, we all care intensely for the narrative of our own life and very much want it to be a good story, with a decent hero.

The premise of the session is a short speech: "Imagine that we are a year into the future. We implemented the plan as it now exists. The outcome was a disaster. Please take 5 to 10 minutes to write a brief history of that disaster.

Social scientists in the 1970s broadly accepted two ideas about human nature. First, people are generally rational, and their thinking is normally sound. Second, emotions such as fear, affection, and hatred explain most of the occasions on which people depart from rationality. Our article challenged both assumptions without discussing them directly.

the weighted average of its possible dollar outcomes; it is the average of the utilities of these outcomes, each weighted by its probability.

To the untrained eye," Feller remarks, "randomness appears as regularity or tendency to cluster.

As we have seen, rationality is generally served by broader and more comprehensive frames, and joint evaluation is obviously broader than single evaluation.

I am generally not optimistic about the potential for personal control of biases, but this is an exception.

I never met Meehl, but he was one of my heroes from the time I read his Clinical vs. Statistical Prediction: A Theoretical Analysis and a Review of the Evidence.

Prospect theory turned out to be the most significant work we ever did, and our article is among the most often cited in the social sciences.