Gugacalifornia: Dan Ariely asks, Are we in control of our own decisions?

Daily Prayers.

Blame no one. Expect nothing. Do something!!!

"No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session." - Mark Twain

I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. - Thomas Jefferson

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Confucius

Sine ira et studio

"My major hobby is teasing people who take themselves & the quality of their knowledge too seriously & those who don’t have the courage to sometimes say: I don’t know...." (You may not be able to change the world but can at least get some entertainment & make a living out of the epistemic arrogance of the human race" Black Swan -Nassim Taleb

"If we had some eggs, we could have ham and eggs, if we had some ham."

"Aforismos sem juízo
Quanto mais detalhado o ideal, mais rápido ele se fragmenta."

"Não se pode ir à Glória sem pagar o bonde"
Machado de Assis"

“O bem que o Estado pode
fazer é limitado;
o mal, infinito.
O que ele nos pode dar
é sempre menos do que nos pode tirar.”
(Roberto Campos)

"Toda grande causa começa como um movimento, vira um negócio e finalmente degenera numa quadrilha"
Eric Hoffer:

"Virar comunista no Brasil é fácil. Basta ter as idéias erradas, preencher uma ficha de filiação, colocar um broche na camiseta e sair por aí falando e fazendo bobagens."

"Men who do things without being told draw the most wages."

"People the world over have always been more impressed by the power of our example than by the example of our power."
Bill Clinton

"Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of
character."

George Santayana

"You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time."
Abraham Lincoln

"O único lugar onde se pode ter queijo grátis é numa ratoeira". (Provérbio Russo)