A hundred petty crimes or petty accidents will not strike the imagination of crowds in the least, whereas a single great crime or a single great accident will profoundly impress them, even though the results be infinitely less disastrous
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“The alternative to maximizing is to be a satisficer. To satisfice is to settle for something that is good enough and not worry about the possibility that there might be something better.”
― The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
― The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
“A gift is pure when it is given from the heart to the right person at the right time and at the right place, and when we expect nothing in return”
― The Bhagavad Gita
― The Bhagavad Gita
“You tell them - you tell them there's a cost.....Every decision we make in life, there's always a cost.”
― The Inner Circle
― The Inner Circle
“The lesson for today, dear Rakshas , is between two evils you should pick the one that you haven't yet tried.”
― Chanakya's Chant
― Chanakya's Chant
“Incontestably, alas, most people are not, in action, worth very much; and yet, every human being is an unprecedented miracle. One tries to treat them as the miracles they are, while trying to protect oneself against the disasters they’ve become.”
― No Name in the Street
― No Name in the Street
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