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Firsts Quotes by Steven Pinker
- Gossip is certainly one of the things that language is useful for, because it's always handy to know who needs a favor, who can offer…
- Human evolution, at first, seems extraordinary. How could the process that gave rise to slugs and oak trees and fish produce a creature that can…
- The European wars of religion were more deadly than the First World War, proportionally speaking, and in the range of the Second World War in…
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- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that. — J. J. Abrams
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves,… — Kevyn Aucoin
- It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take… — Emilie Autumn
- When I died my hair red the first time, I felt as if it was what nature intended. I have been accused… — Amy Adams
- In 2002, in this country, there was an observation that for the first time in America, more kids were actively pursuing skateboarding… — Stephen Baldwin