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"Language-lovers know that there is a word for every fear. Are you afraid of wine? Then you have oenophobia. Tremulous about train travel? You suffer from siderodromophobia. Having misgivings about your mother-in-law is pentheraphobia, and being petrified of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth is arachibutyrophobia. And then there's Franklin Delano Roosevelt's affliction, the fear of fear itself, or phobophobia."
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"This corn will teach to you, should you peel away the husk, and be willing to open your ears."
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"Earning is a product of learning. You're only one letter away from earning more."
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"I'm one of the few persons I ever met who are able to learn from experience."
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"I simply wish to continue to learn, & try to do what I have to do, better."
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"When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue."
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"To teach, learn. To learn, teach."
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"We learn better when learning is a game."
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"Experience is the only subject worthwhile of study."
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"Workshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people."
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"When you learn something new, the structure of your brain changes."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage?"
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"As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones."
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"There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization."
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"What is truly arresting about our kind is better captured in the story of the Tower of Babel, in which humanity, speaking a single language, came so close to reaching heaven that God himself felt threatened."
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"My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries."
Nature

"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

"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

"The doctrine of a soul that outlives the body is anything but righteous, because it necessarily devalues the lives we live on this earth."
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