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Than Quotes by Steven Pinker
- It's likely that taboo words are stored in the right hemisphere of the brain. Massive left hemisphere strokes or the entire surgical removal of the…
- I would argue that nothing gives life more purpose than the realization that every moment of consciousness is a precious and fragile gift.
- In societies no less than individuals, acknowledging our limitations may ultimately be more humane than denying them.
- 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…
- Pre-state societies were far more violent than our own.
- I think that communism was a major force for violence for more than 100 years, because it was built into its ideology - that progress…
- America had, for one thing, lived in anarchy for - until much more recently than Europe. We had the Wild West, where the cliche of…
- Climate change could produce a lot of misery and waste without necessarily leading to large-scale armed conflict, which depends more on ideology and bad governance…
- Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its memory for vivid…
- Commerce, trade and exchange make other people more valuable alive than dead, and mean that people try to anticipate what the other guy needs and…
- However much we might deplore the profit motive, or consumerist values, if everyone just wants i-Pods we would probably be better off than if they…
- The European wars of religion were more deadly than the First World War, proportionally speaking, and in the range of the Second World War in…
- Though knowledge itself increasingly ignores boundaries between fields, professors are apt to organize their pedagogy around the methods and history of their academic subculture rather…
- 20th-century totalitarian movements were no more defined by a rejection of Judeo-Christianity than they were defined by a rejection of astrology, alchemy, Confucianism, Scientology, or…
- I learned to focus my energy on high-quality, long-term projects rather than lower-quality projects with quicker payoffs.
- Roads, better harnesses for horses, time-keeping devices, financial instruments like a currency that was recognized everywhere in the kingdom, enforceable contracts - all of this…
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- 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
- Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes