Maryanne Wolf Quotes

As work in neurosciences indicates, the acquisition of literacy necessitated a new circuit in our species' brain more than 6,000 years ago. That circuit evolved from a very simple mechanism for decoding basic information, like the number of goats in one's herd, to the present, highly elaborated reading brain.

Maryanne Wolf

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It has always seemed to me that those who are without power, who have to create their own in a makeshifit way, know more about life than those who govern.

John Berger

LifePowerMeCreateKnowWay

My tears will keep no channel, know no laws to guide their streams, but like the waves, their cause, run with disturbance till they swallow me as a description of his misery.

John Cleveland

MeTearsWavesKnowRunWill

As far as the lack of hits goes, I think perhaps it's because I've played a lot of different roles and have not created a persona that the public can latch on to. I have played everything from psychopathic killers to romantic leading men, and in picking such diverse roles I have avoided typecasting.

Jeff Bridges

RomanticMenThinkEverythingFar

For most of the countries I visit, getting affordable energy in the hands of the people is a preoccupation.

John S. Watson

PeopleEnergyHandsMostVisit

The rich rob the poor, and the poor rob one another.

Sojourner Truth

RichPoorRobAnother

God must have been on leave during the Holocaust.

Simon Wiesenthal

GodHolocaustLeaveMustBeen

For 60 years, I was the most controversial figure in the country, and suddenly, I'm the most popular man in the land. Truth be told, I don't know when I was happier: then or now.

Shimon Peres

TruthManCountryKnowNowLand

I grew up thinking anything was possible simply because of seeing women in power - like, you know, running the country. Which is a thought that continues to give Americans indigestion... Direction is about having a vision, but the practice of being a director is a con game - a confidence game.

Mira Nair

ConfidenceWomenPowerVisionGame

We might all place ourselves in one of two ranks the women who do something, and the women who do nothing; the first being of course the only creditable place to occupy.

Lucy Larcom

WomenPlaceNothingFirstTwoBeing

If you make a mistake, people are going to know about it really fast - and I was making a ton of them when I was a kid.

Jason Bateman

MistakePeopleYouFastKnowKid

Guys are just too fast and too big in the NFL.

Josh Hopkins

FastBigNFLJustGuysToo

Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality.

Diego Rivera

WomanBodySheThroughSexuality

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