Steven Pinker Quotes

An eye for beauty locks onto faces that show signs of health and fertility - just as one would predict if it had evolved to help the beholder find the fittest mate.

Steven Pinker

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BeautyHealthEyeHelpFindPredict

I've seen suffering first-hand, and we have to make sure we relieve people's suffering.

Jimmy Gomez

PeopleSufferingSeenSureMake

If I get stuck doing comic-book films for the rest of my life, I'll be really happy.

Megan Fox

LifeHappyRestMy LifeDoingGet

But there is a discomfort that surrounds grief. It makes even the most well-intentioned people unsure of what to say. And so many of the freshly bereaved end up feeling even more alone.

Meghan O'Rourke

AloneGriefPeopleEndFeelingSay

My company is known for being funny as well as moving. You get a bit of everything in these shows. I think people know they're going to have a surprising experience.

Matthew Bourne

FunnyExperiencePeopleMovingThink

To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation, the animals are 'production units,' and accorded all the sympathy that term suggests.

Matthew Scully

SympathyHonorFarmerAnimalsSense

We feel bound to the Christian image of humanity - that is what defines us. Those who do not accept this are in the wrong place here.

Angela Merkel

FeelChristianHumanityWrongPlace

As professional athletes, we get pitched business or investment opportunities all the time, wherever we are.

Rob Gronkowski

BusinessTimeOpportunitiesWherever

The Republicans ought to be nowhere near trying to help Obama save his bacon. But they don't think that's what they're doing, I'm convinced. You talk about trauma and the need for therapy, I really think that the Republicans have been genuinely psychologically traumatized by decades of media criticism.

Rush Limbaugh

ThinkCriticismDoingMediaHelp

Wearing a veneer of perfection never did me any good.

Liz Phair

GoodPerfectionMeNeverDidAny

There are laws for peace as well as war.

Livy

PeaceWarWellLaws

With friendship, it's hard sometimes - you don't outgrow your friends, but you do question how people are friends to you in different ways and how it's okay to cultivate other relationships outside of that.

Dee Rees

FriendshipPeopleFriendsYouOkay

I have an evolving relationship with my father, and his memory, especially the older I get. I know that some of the things that interested him are things that interest me.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

FatherRelationshipMemoryMeKnow

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