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Such Quotes by Steven Pinker
- The last 100 years of research into the human brain...sees the brain as an organ that works by physical principles just like the other organs…
- 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…
- Most wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conquest, revenge, and ideology.
- 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…
- If we are not to abandon values such as peace and equality, or our commitments to science and truth, then we must pry these values…
- The Rights Revolutions too have given us ideals that educated people today take for granted but that are virtually unprecedented in human history, such as…
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- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough. — Lance Armstrong
- A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other, like… — Rudolf Arnheim
- The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious diseases and… — Chester A. Arthur
- 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
- These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of… — William Henry Ashley
- I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my… — Isaac Asimov
- We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us.… — Julian Assange