People just hate the idea of losing. Any loss, even a small one, is just so terrible to contemplate that they compensate by buying insurance, including totally absurd policies like air travel.

Daniel Kahneman
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  4. Hate is... It's too easy. Love. Love takes courage. - Hannah Harrington

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More Quotes By Daniel Kahneman
  1. Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.

  2. A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.

  3. We all care intensely for the narrative of our own life and very much want it to be a good story, with a decent hero.

  4. The world makes much less sense than you think. The coherence comes mostly from the way your mind works.

  5. ...the characters are useful because of some quirks of our minds, yours and mine. A sentence is understood more easily if it describes what an agent (system 2) does than if it describes what something is, what properties it has.

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