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Mental Quotes by Steven Pinker
- When a scientist considers all high-tech mental machinery needed to arrange words into ordinary sentences, prescriptive rules are, at best, inconsequential little decorations. The very…
- In the speech sound wave, one word runs into the next seamlessly; there are no little silences between spoken words the way there are white…
- I suspect music is auditory cheesecake, an exquisite confection crafted to tickle the sensitive spots of... our mental faculties.
- Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative, mental map, or…
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- If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia. — Margaret Atwood
- Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone… — Teresa of Avila
- I'm at the point in my life where I don't want to work as hard. Actually, I've had to take a good… — Alan Ball
- I always had a dissociative disorder. But I healed from it over the course of 14 years of big-time therapy. But, you… — Roseanne Barr
- When you've been locked up in a mental institution, people are going to ask questions. It was OK, because I didn't have… — Drew Barrymore
- A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is… — Robert Foster Bennett
- Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing. — Diane Abbott
- In general, the more food we eat in its natural state - without additives - and the less it is refined, the… — Ezra Taft Benson
- When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase. — Bernard Berenson
- Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical. — Yogi Berra
- The mental body, like the astral, varies much in different people; it is composed of coarser or of finer matter, according to… — Annie Besant