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Steven Pinker Quotes

The decline of violence isn't a steady inclined plane from an original state of maximal and universal bloodshed. Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with.

Steven Pinker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Technology Violence Humanity New Out

I've never been an optimist.

Joan Baez

Never Optimist Been

I'm a New York girl. I come out of New York theater.

Joan Rivers

Girl New York New Out Come Theater

When you're on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It's pretty intense.

Robert Smith

Time World You Real Stage Drops

Abstraction is everybody's zero but nobody's nought.

Robert Smithson

Nobody Abstraction Zero Everybody

My principal professional objective is to introduce intelligence as the ubiquitous utility. I'd like to be the Thomas Edison of intelligence.

Michael J. Saylor

Intelligence Professional Principal

Ensure you eat within 20 minutes of a workout. Choose healthy snacks such as slices of ham, a handful of almonds, or fruit. Sometimes before bed, I have a teaspoon of almond butter or peanut butter, which gives me enough protein to get me through the night.

Tom Daley

Me Fruit Night Enough You Choose

My dad remembers being in school with my uncle, and the teacher would say outright to the class that the Japanese were second-class citizens and shouldn't be trusted.

Mike Shinoda

Teacher School Uncle Say Class

Only here, because of the illusion of intellectualism, our society separates the validity of human expression.

Joseph Jarman

Society Illusion Human Expression

All I want to do, ever, is play chess.

Bobby Fischer

Play Want Chess Ever

I like to mix it up with vintage '70s stuff and I like to wear a lot of guys' clothes. As far as night stuff, I have my stylist direct me in the right way. We have a vintage glamour, age-appropriate, pretty thing going.

Brittany Snow

Me Night Vintage Clothes Way Right

Collaboration is the best way to work. It's only way to work, really. Everyone's there because they have a set of skills to offer across the board.

Antony Starr

Work Best Collaboration Skills Way

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

Winston Churchill

Life Work Best War Open Up