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Steven Pinker Quotes

Statisticians tell us that people underestimate the sheer number of coincidences that are bound to happen in a world governed by chance.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: canadian
Birth: September 18, 1954

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People World Chance Underestimate Us

I did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type.

Small Apple Silent First Cost Low

Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others.

John Petit-Senn

Good People Evil Believe Good People

No one can feel as the owner of the country and no one can feel excluded from the right of property. We must all suffer Colombia.

Feel Country Right Suffer Property

The Ku Klux Klan has never died in America.

America Never Klan Died

A passion for any novel, and any character, can crystallise your ideas when you really need to be as open as possible as a performer.

Passion Character Ideas You Possible

I don't think the idea of working in Hollywood really exists anymore. I think you work in films, and where the film is shot is where it's shot. The studio system doesn't really exist.

Work Think You Hollywood System

The Bible does not isolate war, as if it were something separate and unique and quite apart, as we tend to do in our thinking. It is but one of the manifestations of sin, one of the consequences of sin.

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

War Bible Thinking Unique Sin Our

I was born in 1935, so I was quite young when the war started. I remember we were in Bath, and it was 1942. We went down into the cellar of our house, and when we came up, I remember seeing all the glass on the floor where all the windows had been shaken out by the bombs.

War Remember Seeing House Down Bath

I don't ever want to get too comfortable in my career or life. My nature is such that I'm always looking for new challenges.

Life Nature Challenges Looking New

I've got, like, too many things that I'd like to try and do, so I'm trying to figure out where the natural pull is strongest.

Lucia Micarelli

Trying Try Out Things Natural Where

I'm a true believer in story. I think when you just tell people to think, people tend to get resistant and defensive and feel like you're accusing them of not thinking.

People Story Think Thinking You Get

Legal dialogue is awesome, but you can't ad lib. It's much more fun to be looser and say things like, 'Can I work in a Han Solo reference?' I'm a 'Star Wars' freak.

Work Fun Legal You Say More

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