#perfectly

I am perfectly happy to believe that nobody likes us but the public. ↗

— Rudolf Bing

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Put simply, behavioural economics argues that human beings' decision-taking is guided by the evolutionary baggage which we bring with us to the present day. Evolution has made us rational to a point, but not perfectly so. It has given us emotions, for example, which programme us to override our rational brain and act more instinctively. ↗

— Evan Davis

#baggage #behavioural #beings #brain #bring

This was the first day of our beginning to take up plants: we had much pleasure in collecting them for the natives offered their assistance and perfectly understood the method of taking them up and pruning them. ↗

— William Bligh

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I want to make this perfectly clear: you can be sure that I will never be a yes-man except to my own conscience. ↗

— Charles Edison

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According to the percentage people, you would be perfectly comfortable. ↗

— Bobby Bragan

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Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you would be perfectly comfortable. ↗

— Bobby Bragan

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Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#down #happy #hold #market #only

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly. ↗

— E. T. Bell

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We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die. ↗

— Albert Camus

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