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- Fiction seems to be more effective at changing beliefs than nonfiction, which is designed to persuade through argument and evidence. Studies show that when we…
- In my profession more generally, it's not an exaggeration to say that masculinity is viewed as the root of all evil. If you were to…
- It's an empirical question whether training makes one more or less likely to get in a fight outside the gym. In some ways, I'm probably…
- I think what bothers us about fighting sports isn't the damage to the athlete but the fact that you win by doing more harm to…
- A boxing contest is a brain-damage contest. Who can give out more brain damage and who can absorb more of it?
- In an effort to civilize combat sports, authorities mandated padded gloves and instantly made the sports far more savage. Granted, putting gloves on the hands…
- Putting gloves on the fighters was a symbolic change that suggested that we were now making it a civilized sport, and it was no longer…
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- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle