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Say Quotes by Steven Pinker
- When people talk, they lay lines on each other, do a lot of role playing, sidestep, shilly-shally and engage in all manner of vagueness and…
- M.I.T. has a reputation for turning out Dilberts. They may be brilliant in what they do, but no one can understand what they say.
- A word is an arbitrary label - that's the foundation of linguistics. But many people think otherwise. They believe in word magic: that uttering a…
- Words let us say the things we want to say and also things we would be better off not having said. They let us know…
- The more you think about and interact with other people, the more you realize that it is untenable to privilege your interests over theirs, at…
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- My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough. — Lance Armstrong
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- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to… — Darren Aronofsky
- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
- We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have… — Mary Kay Ash