Steven Pinker Quotes

I've never argued that humans are massively hot-wired. What I was trying to point out was that you can't understand how we learn unless you identify the learning mechanisms. And these have some genetic basis.

Steven Pinker

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LearningLearnTryingYouUnderstand

There are certain wicked people in the world that you can't deal with except by force.

John Keegan

PeopleWorldYouWickedForceDeal

Big Brother makes a game where it's competitive, not just a handicap match. Mentally, physically, strategically, emotionally, it's an even match. When you compete 100%, it's a real competition.

Metta World Peace

CompetitionBrotherGameYouReal

Remember what people used to say about meditation? Now everyone is doing it.

Shirley MacLaine

PeopleDoingRememberMeditationSay

Injustice drives me crazy!

Trevor Paglen

MeCrazyInjusticeDrives

No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.

Robert Frost

MemoryEndHardBeingDisregard

It gives me confidence to know that what I'm writing has a veracity of its own without me having to invent it. When I'm writing fiction, I must believe it to be true, or I can see no point in it.

Michael Morpurgo

ConfidenceMeWritingBelieveI Can

You can't have a healthy society unless you have healthy companies that are making a profit, that are employing people and that are growing.

Michael Porter

PeopleSocietyYouProfitHealthy

When you become a parent, you leave a lot of things behind and refocus, maybe on how simple life really is and what few things there really are to worry about. And everything else can go by the wayside.

Chris Cornell

LifeSimpleParentWorryYouBecome

I would sing the blues if I had the blues.

Chuck Berry

BluesSingWouldHad

Paris is wild; it's decadent... it's so many things.

Brian Azzarello

ParisWildThingsManyDecadent

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.

Pythagoras

EasyYouNothingDifficultBecomes

I have this almost obsessive desire to whomever is close to me: I want to have a very intense, close, intimate relationship with them.

Susanne Bier

RelationshipMeDesireWantIntense

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