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“We categorize as we do because we have the brains and bodies we have and because we interact in the world as we do.” quote by George Lakoff — Download Open image

“We categorize as we do because we have the brains and bodies we have and because we interact in the world as we do.”

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If you're a progressive, you can find lots of people who call themselves conservatives, but who agree with you on lots of things. There are people who call themselves conservatives, but who love the land as much as any environmentalist. Progressives share a number of common values with people who call themselves conservatives. Barack Obama has understood that very well.…

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The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another.

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“The environment is not an "other" to us. It is not a collection of things that we encounter. Rather, it is part of our being. It is the locus of our existence and identity. We cannot and do not exist apart from it. It is through empathic projection that we come to know our environment, understand how we are part…

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Barack Obama understands what Ronald Reagan learned, which is that people vote not on the basis of issues and policy details, but on the basis of something deeper, namely, what are your values? Are you authentic? Do you say what you believe? Do you communicate with us? And do we identify with you? You don't know what particular issues are…

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“Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature.”

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Most conservatives are conservatives because they think they are morally correct.

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You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain.

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“If you believe in the eighteenth century view of the mind, you will look and act wimpy. You will think that all you need to do is give people the facts and the figures and they will reach the right conclusion. You will think that all you need to do is point out where their interests lie, and they will…

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