Pre-state societies were far more violent than our own.
Steven Pinker
Recitation: by Male by Female
Cars are a fairly unpleasant thing to have to draw.
John Allison
ThingFairlyUnpleasantDraw
Media Asia has great partners in China, Japan and Hollywood.
Andrew Lau
GreatMediaHollywoodChinaJapan
My fame is due to broadcast television.
John Hodgman
TelevisionFameBroadcastDue
Argentines have billions of pesos overseas because they didn't trust in the state.
Mauricio Macri
TrustBecauseStateOverseas
I think we perhaps are, with sleep, where we were with smoking about 50 years ago, in that we had all of the science, and it was right there for the public discussion, but it's not yet adequately sort of percolated out into policy or even just public wisdom.
Matthew Walker
WisdomScienceSleepThinkSmoking
But the fact of the matter is that all scientific evidence would show, based upon what we know about this disease, that muscle cuts - that is, the meat of the animal itself - should not cause any risk to human health.
Ann Veneman
HealthAnimalKnowMatterMuscle
They both changed the way we hear the sound of the piano, both of them inventors of sonority: Chopin took bel canto singing lines and reproduced them on the keyboard above richly upholstered counterpoint; Debussy somehow preserved vibrations in the air, blending their ephemeral magic into music that reaches far back into deep memory.
Stephen Hough
MusicMemorySingingDeepMagicWay
I've always loved film, and since I knew I probably couldn't be a cowboy or a spy in real life, I thought I'd play one in a movie! I started doing theater in middle school and tested for 'Victorious' before being in an episode of 'iCarly.'
Spencer Boldman
LifeSchoolThoughtLovedDoing
When we were in school, we were told that Stalin was a madman who got control of Europe, which teaches you nothing.
Simon Sebag Montefiore
SchoolControlYouNothingEurope
You always want to help people out.
Ron Johnson
PeopleHelpYouWantAlwaysOut
In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That's terribly important, especially for a writer.
Mary Wesley
BestFriendsImportantYoungUp
The quality of our reading is not only an index of the quality of our thought; it is our best-known route to developing whole new pathways in the cerebral evolution of our species.
Maryanne Wolf
QualityReadingThoughtEvolution
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