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Impression Quotes by Steven Pinker
- It's natural to think that living things must be the handiwork of a designer. But it was also natural to think that the sun went…
- Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity's highest callings.
- People are under the impression that dictionaries legislate language. What a dictionary does is keep track of usages over time.
- Consciousness turns out to consist of a maelstrom of events distributed across the brain. These events compete for attention, and as one process outshouts the…
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- If only every man who sees my films did not get the impression he can make love to me, I would be… — Brigitte Bardot
- Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries… — Marcus Aurelius
- A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we… — Saul Bellow
- My mother made a brilliant impression upon my childhood life. She shone for me like the evening star. — Winston Churchill
- My love is thaw'd; Which, like a waxen image 'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was — William Shakespeare
- A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates,… — Albert Einstein
- I believe a writer is an eye, a pervasive eye that sees the reality that surrounds us, as well as the impression… — Mariela Griffor
- Faith is indeed the energy of our whole universe directed to the highest form of being. Faith gives stability to our view… — Brooke Westcott