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Michael Shermer Quotes

As a social primate species, we modulate our morals with signals from family, friends and social groups with whom we identify because in our evolutionary past, those attributes helped individuals to survive and reproduce.

Michael Shermer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
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Birth: September 8, 1954

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Family Past Survive Morals Friends

The only pressure I feel is to write good books. And to not replicate the previous book. Whether you have a thousand readers or a million readers it doesn't change the pressure. I never feel tempted to give the reader what I think the reader wants.

Jo Nesbo

Change Good Book Think Pressure You

This kind of prelude was succeeded by the concerto itself which he executed with a degree of spirit and firmness that no one has ever pretended to equal.

John Hawkins

Kind Spirit Equal Degree He Prelude

All the world lies warm in one heart, yet the Sierra seems to get more light than other mountains. The weather is mostly sunshine embellished with magnificent storms, and nearly everything shines from base to summit - the rocks, streams, lakes, glaciers, irised falls, and the forests of silver fir and silver pine.

John Muir

Heart Light Sunshine Mountains World

America has been the country of my fond election from the age of thirteen, when I first saw it. I had the honour to hoist with my own hands the flag of freedom, the first time it was displayed, on the Delaware; and I have attended it with veneration ever since on the ocean.

John Paul Jones

Age Freedom Time Ocean America Flag

I start every book with something that outrages me. I'm outraged by the FBI, the CIA, and computers that seem to have catalogued our lives. Power too often is accompanied by irresponsibility.

Robert Ludlum

Power Me Start Book Computers Seem

I never had a moment of realization about my blackness - I just was. Blackness was a central thread of my experience as a child and as an adolescent, as it is now that I'm an adult.

Angela Rye

Moment Experience Child Now Never

I like to run.

Ann Marie Buerkle

Run Like

Drill everything, mine everything, roll back regulations, tweak the science, expedite permits. Sound familiar? The Republicans offer up more 19th-Century solutions to our 21st-Century energy problems.

Jeff Goodell

Science Energy Problems Back Sound

That doesn't necessarily mean they have to have an explicit proposal that they put forward that all Democrats sign up to, but I think they need to throw some ideas out that, at least directionally, point the way forward.

John Podesta

Ideas Forward Think Way Mean Need

In sport there is never any moment that is the same as the other. I have been in Formula One for 12 years, and out of that I had one year with the perfect car.

Michael Schumacher

Car Moment Year Perfect Never Out

One encounter with Jesus Christ is enough to change you, instantly, forever.

Luis Palau

Change Enough You Jesus Christ Jesus

The reason we care so much about what happens to the likes of Lady Gaga is not because her shenanigans will ever impact our lives; rather because our brain doesn't realize there's a difference between rock stars we know about and relatives we know.

Peter Diamandis

Stars Brain Care Impact Lady Know