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"People today think of the world as a uniquely dangerous place. It’s hard to follow the news without feeling a mounting dread of terrorist attacks, a clash of civilizations, and the use of weapons of mass destruction. But we often forget the dangers that filled the news a few decades ago and become blasé about the good fortune that so many of them have fizzled out."
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"By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu."
Science
"Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language."
Art
"But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses."
Information
"I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor."
Artist
"Why do people believe that there are dangerous implications of the idea that the mind is a product of the brain, that the brain is organized in part by the genome, and that the genome was shaped by natural selection?"
People
"Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage?"
Mind
"So no, it's not all in the genes, but what isn't in the genes isn't in the family environment either. It can't be explained in terms of the overall personalities or the child-rearing practices of parents."
Family
"Personality and socialization aren't the same thing."
Personality
"As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones."
Equality
"I don't consider myself to be that radical a thinker."
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"People with victim mentality attracts people in their lives that tease them, abuse them and even bully them instead of building mutually benefitting relationships."
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"Be ordinary, but bring a quality of awareness to your ordinary life."
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Personal Development
"God is not coming to fix any nation. The most he could do is to raise up a man or a woman who would take responsibility to fix the nation."
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Personal Development
"There are few things more destructive than thoughts believed without question."
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Personal Development
"The tragedy of our age is that a greater percentage of people living today are only living in the dream world."
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Personal Development
"If you think everybody hates you, then your ignorance is beyond the limit, because there's a loving heart somewhere longing to see your face."
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Personal Development
"Intuition is beyond the scope of our mind, it is surprising, but it is the fact of life."
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Personal Development
"Like many people who became sick, I found that researching man-made radiation immersed me into a corporate world of lie, confuse and deny."
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Personal Development
"You hear with your ears, but you listen with an open mind."
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Personal Development
"I think this is one bad side of a mirror; it helps us to see the reflection of the effects of our own actions on ourselves. We smile and it smiles back to us, we frown and it frowns to us. How I wish it shows us the reflections of the effects of our actions on other people as well so that we will be conscious!"
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