Steven Pinker Quotes

There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization.

Steven Pinker

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LearningCultureSocializationInnate

In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee - or laugh.

Robert Orben

HumorFightChoicesLaughCrisisUs

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

John Ruskin

BeautifulWorldRememberUseless

To try to be a professional athlete and work out when you're not sleeping right, you're traveling day to day, not to mention the bumps and bruises in the ring, and you're trying to eat right - it's a very, very challenging job.

Rob Van Dam

WorkDayJobTryingYouRing

There's so many things that life is, and no matter how many breakthroughs, trials will exist and we're going to get through it. Just be strong.

Mary J. Blige

LifeBe StrongStrongTrialsMatter

Lady Gaga is one of the most amazingly talented musicians to bring her gifts to humanity in a long time.

Jared Polis

TimeMusiciansLadyLongHumanity

Every time one person gets a piece of information, the likelihood of that information being exposed grows exponentially. It's no longer two people. It's two people squared.

Jon Cryer

TimePeopleInformationPersonTwo

There are whole months at a time when my head is so full of ideas that I wake in the middle of the night and lie in the dark telling myself stories. There are also long, dark nights when I just know I'll never write another word: I'm finished, empty, a husk... Oh dear, yes, twitch, yawn, how I've suffered insomnia for my art.

Debi Gliori

TimeArtMyselfLieIdeasNight

I am solidly, 100 percent behind Donald Trump.

Chris Collins

I AmDonald TrumpBehindPercentAm

Call me, and I'd do anything for the Democratic Party.

Art Alexakis

MePartyAnythingCallDemocratic

Flying back from New York, the flight attendant said 'God, I wished you were here yesterday, we had a stroke on the plane. I said, if I have a stroke on a plane, I hope the pretend doctor isn't the one on the plane. I want a real doctor.

Anthony Edwards

GodHopeMedicalNew YorkFlying

Observing is really the fuel to innovating, ultimately.

Mark Parker

FuelObservingReallyUltimately

All governments, the worst on earth, and the most tyrannical on earth, are free governments to that portion of the people who voluntarily support them.

Lysander Spooner

SupportPeopleFreeEarthWorstWho

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