Steven Pinker Quotes

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 wants. It engages the mechanisms of reciprocal altruism, as the evolutionary biologists call it, as opposed to raw dominance.

Steven Pinker

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PeopleAliveTryDeadMoreMean

Al Jazeera is one entity that everyone across the Arab world watches. Arabs are proud of that.

Jehane Noujaim

WorldProudWatchesEveryoneArabs

'Rules dieters' find limitations oddly freeing, because the restrictions create a framework that's easy to follow. Essentially, rules dieters don't do well when they're let off plan, mainly because they are usually emotionally attached to food in some way.

John Romaniello

FoodPlanEasyRulesFindCreate

I would like to have won a Tony, I guess, because I have always thought of myself as a theater person. But I've won my share of awards, so I don't worry about it.

Stephen Schwartz

MyselfThoughtWorryPersonAwards

Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

Solon

PeopleLawSocietyObeyWell

Most people's historical perspective begins with the day of their birth.

Rush Limbaugh

PerspectiveDayPeopleBirthBegins

The truth is, I'm pretty lighthearted.

Matt Berninger

TruthTruth IsPrettyLighthearted

I'll always stand by the first 'Batman'. Even for its imperfections, people will never know how hard that movie was to do. A lot of that still holds up.

Michael Keaton

PeopleStandKnowWillNeverFirst

Most of the scripts that land on my desk are stuff you read and go, 'Is someone really gonna make this?'

Jason Statham

SomeoneYouDeskGoLandStuff

I'm always jotting things down on pieces of paper. I've got pieces of paper all over my house.

Don Henley

HouseDownAlwaysOverPiecesPaper

The fact is that, in all prisons everywhere, cruelties on the one hand and injudicious laxity of discipline on the other have at times appeared and will, at intervals, be renewed except the most vigilant oversight is maintained.

Dorothea Dix

DisciplineWillHandFactMost

It doesn't give me any satisfaction to think that my concerns will be validated by my grandchildren's generation. I would love to be wrong in everything. My grandchildren are my stake in the near future, and it's my great hope that they might one day say, 'Grandpa was part of a great movement that helped to turn things around.'

David Suzuki

LoveFutureHopeGreatDayMe

It's important to stand up for what you believe in.

Cody Linley

Stand UpBelieveStandYouImportant

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