Kainuman Quotes

#1. The engine driving the Kelly system is the "law of large numbers." In a 1713 treatise on probability, Swiss mathematician Jakob Bernoulli propounded a law that has been misunderstood by gamblers (and investors) ever since.

William Poundstone

#2. I think I'm low-maintenance.

Douglas Booth

#3. Most of us are brainwashed by our society so we become the reflection of that society.

Debasish Mridha

#4. I never thought of it before, but with your height and build, you are going to look SO CUTE in your straitjacket.

Michele Jaffe

#5. {Y}ou make do with what you're given, and I've spent a good many years learning to write fine-sounding sentences so that I can hide behind them. It's the way of the hermit crab, with nothing to recommend it but the pretty shell it annexes for its own.

Norman Lock

#6. An awareness of one's mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.

Bernie Siegel

#7. But there was change in the air, and whether for good or ill, change always quickens the pulse and sharpens the senses.

Karen Engelmann

#8. She read it again. It was fascinating and surreal, like reading a diary that had been hers when she was a teenager, secret and heartfelt words written by a girl she only vaguely remembered. She wished she'd written more. Her words mad her feel sad and proud, powerful and relieved.

Lisa Genova

#9. Of course there is a way to stop the rampant spread of beauty. It has to do with regimentation, conformity, assemblyline aesthetics, and the triumph of the functional over the haphazard.

Anne Rice

#10. I am grown by sympathy a little eager and sentimental, but leave me alone, and I should relish every hour and what it brought me, the pot-luck of the day, as heartily as the oldest gossip in the bar-room.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. It is true that the present is powerfully shaped by the past. But it is also true that ... insight at any age keeps us from singing the same sad songs again.

Judith Viorst