New Zealand are the best team in the world - the execution and accuracy of their skills were a lesson in modern rugby.
Most people, even in simple risky situations, don't behave the way the theory of utility would have them behave.
A final word of advice: don't gloat about how well you have done.
The art of compromise centers on the willingness to give up something in order to get something else in return. Successful artists get more than they give up.
Disputants often fare poorly when they each act greedily and deceptively.
Ideas are incestuous.
The best practical advice then is: try to maximize your expected payoff, which is the sum of all payoffs multiplied by probabilities.
There is no life without consciousness; there is no consciousness without life.
I loved movies as a teenager and saw as much American cinema as I could, but I hated the English films of the early 60s and had absolutely no point of identification with them.
What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?
Wait for the Lord. Behave yourself manfully, and be of good courage. Do not be faithless, but stay in your place and do not turn back.