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Shaped Quotes by Steven Pinker
- The fact that people can forget these simple truths when intellectualizing about children shows how far modern doctrines have taken us. They make it easy…
- The idea that children are passive repositories to be shaped by their parents has been massively overstated. A child's peer group is a far greater…
- I think students should know something about religion as a historical phenomenon, in the same way that they should know something about socialism and humanism…
- No one knows what the nongenetic causes of individuality are. Perhaps people are shaped by modifications of genes that take place after conception, or by…
- Why do people believe that there are dangerous implications of the idea that the mind is a product of the brain, that the brain is…
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- Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
- We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence. — Paul Auster
- If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if… — Margaret Atwood
- Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions… — Saint Augustine
- God made a very obvious choice when he made me voluptuous; why would I go against what he decided for me? My… — Drew Barrymore
- Oprah is wildly successful, and she's a brilliant businesswoman. She's also somebody who's overcome a ton of demons in her own life,… — Glenn Beck
- Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics. — Tony Blair
- In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me. — Maya Angelou