"The outcome of a non-constant-sum game may be dictated by the individual rationality of the respective players without satisfying a criterion of collective rationality."

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Source : "Game Theory as a Theory of Conflict Resolution" by Anatol Rapoport, (p. 4), 1974.

Anatol Rapoport

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“Man had in the beginning no power of analysis or synthesis approaching that of the spider, or even of the honey-bee; he had acute sensibility to the higher forces. Fire taught him secrets that no other animal could learn; running water probably taught him even more, especially in his first lessons of mechanics; the animals helped to educate him, trusting themselves into his hands merely for the sake of their food, and carrying his burdens or supplying his clothing; the grasses and grains were academies of study.”
“William Castle and Alfred Hitchcock were the first director-personalities. Before then, nobody in America knew what a director was.”
“Listen to your own Self. If you listen to that Self within, then you find the Truth.”
“It was easy to believe, between lessons on Shakespeare and Dickens and Austen, that all of the great stories had already been written by dead Europeans. But every time I saw 'The Outsiders', I knew better. It was the first time I'd realized that real people write books.”
“My films play only in Bengal, and my audience is the educated middle class in the cities and small towns. They also play in Bombay, Madras and Delhi where there is a Bengali population.”

Source : Satyajit Ray, Bert Cardullo (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”, p.101, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“Leading by fear is a lot of companies' approach, and a horrible way for people to exist in their lives, when most of your life is spent at work.”
“God fully knows himself and all things actual and possible in one simple and eternal act.”

Source : Wayne A. Grudem (2009). “Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine”, p.172, Harper Collins
“Thereâ€™s a phrase in Buddhism, â€˜Beginnerâ€™s mind.â€™ Itâ€™s wonderful to have a beginnerâ€™s mind.”

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