Richard Thaler Quotes

Lotteries are just one way to provide positive reinforcement. Their power comes from the fact that the chance of winning the prize is overvalued.

Richard Thaler

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It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning.

Michael Gove

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The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.

Jean Racine

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He's not a child but he's childlike, he's not a grown up, he's not a kid, maybe he sounds like an elf on helium, we'll play with it.

Tom Kenny

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And that's what the audience was feeling too, as they watched the show and as they watch it now. And overriding all of that is the way it was written. It was written honestly. There was never any manufactured laugh. There was never compromising of character.

Mary Tyler Moore

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I think Britain is a bit class-ridden. People tend to be judged by how rounded their vowels are.

Miriam Margolyes

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I used to work at my dad's peanut mill, and worked 15 hours a day, 6 days a week. So, now, riding around on a nice tour bus and doing shows, you'd have to get picky to have a downside.

Luke Bryan

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Grass-roots politics, linking small-dollar fundraising to massive local volunteer organization, showed that it can rival the power of a right-wing machine comprising super PACs backed by entrenched interests and mega-donors.

Jon Ossoff

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I'm not made to be a mother.

Brigitte Bardot

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If having a beautiful lawn means putting up warning signs several times a year to keep children and pets off of it, it's probably a good idea to look into alternatives.

Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

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White people use their literature to maintain culture. That's why you find references to Milton and Spencer and Shakespeare and Dostoyevsky in contemporary novels.

Ntozake Shange

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Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

Richard M. Nixon

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There is no question that we must do more to secure our borders - but how we go about securing them is also important.

Mark Udall

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