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Example Quotes by Steven Pinker
- In many Muslim countries, witchcraft is not only on the books as a crime, but is commonly prosecuted. In 2009, for example, Saudi Arabia convicted…
- Evolutionarily speaking, there is seldom any mystery in why we seek the goals we seek — why, for example, people would rather make love with…
- Writers acquire their technique by spotting, savoring, and reverse-engineering examples of good prose.
- For example, parents who talk a lot to their children have kids with better language skills, parents who spank have children who grow up to…
- The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and…
More Example Quotes
- Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is… — Teresa of Avila
- Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example. — Robert Baden-Powell
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani
- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi
- Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
- Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two… — Ambrose Bierce