Steven Pinker Quotes

You don't like to be lied to, by your friends or in your business dealings. So why would you want to be lied to when it comes to the origin of life or the fate of the planet?

Steven Pinker

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In my view the structure of the whole atom was that of an individual, with all its parts interconnected, and the emission of a spectral line appeared to me to be the result of the coherence and co-operation of several electric quanta.

Johannes Stark

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The actors I admired were Bogart, Cagney, Cooper, Tracy. Great personalities. Real stars.

Jean-Paul Belmondo

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Our country was founded on immigration. We are all occupying Native American land here. At what point do we say 'It's our land, and nobody else can come here.'

Michael Franti

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The last time I had a job that wasn't an acting job was '88, and I'm quite proud of that.

Robert Taylor

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I love traveling, but I love the bum I married, and the bums I gave birth to, more. And the dogs. I love them, too.

MaryJanice Davidson

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I spent 10 years fighting for reform in Cook County, and I didn't change my DNA when I got to Washington.

Mike Quigley

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We are reminded repeatedly, often by older men, that western civilization has died on the altar of social media.

Michelle Dean

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In her religious role, the Queen is head of the Church of England, but in her civic role she cares for all her subjects, and no one is better at making everyone she meets feel valued.

Jonathan Sacks

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It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. What works in a classroom or a think tank does not work on Capitol Hill or in the White House. Obama sometimes seems to be running the Brookings Institution, not the country.

Jon Meacham

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Because we had no other relatives living in the U.K., me, my parents and my siblings continuously journeyed abroad to bond with our extended family.

Anton du Beke

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There should be a democracy of voices in literature. There are people who live with a kind of striving and with a certain kind of tenderness - it's not an unusual thing - and maybe that's not written about enough.

Anne Michaels

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The patriarchy is alive and well in Egypt and the wider Arab world.

Shereen El Feki

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