"Is it astonishing that, like children trying to catch smoke by closing their hands, philosophers so often see the object they would grasp fly before them?"

-- Henri Bergson

#Children Quotes #Hands Quotes #Trying Quotes

“It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.”
“Of the many 'firsts' with which I have been involved at the Texas Heart Institute â€”including the first successful human heart transplant in the United States and the first total artificial heart transplant in the worldâ€”the achievement that may have the greatest impact on health care did not occur in the operating room or in the research laboratory. It happened on a piece of paper... when we created the first-ever packaged pricing plan for cardiovascular surgical procedures.”
“I love color. It must submit to me. And I love art. I kneel before it, and it must become mine. Everything around me glows with passion. Every day reveals a new red flower, glowing, scarlet red. Everyone around me carries them. Some wear them quietly hidden in their hearts. And they are like poppies just opening, of which one can see only here and there a hint of red petal peeking out from the green bud.”
“Iâ€™d trade my soul for a wish.”
“I think the true rock fans are pretty loyal.”
“While no rigorous proof of an optimal strategy has been achieved, Robbins has proposed the principal of "staying on a winner" and has shown it to be uniformly better than a strategy of random selection.”

Source : "The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic". Book by Richard Arnold Epstein, 1977.
“When in doubt, exchange.”
“When the church hears the cry of the oppressed it cannot but denounce the social structures that give rise to and perpetuate the misery from which the cry arises.”

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