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Steven Pinker

"People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven't given much thought to the connections."

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Donna Grant

"When you take action-think.When you fail-think.When you are in doubt-think.When you have lost your way-think.You are nothing but your thoughts."

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Donna Grant

"Wherever your thoughts and beliefs can take you, you can go there."

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Donna Grant

"Give thy thoughts no tongue."

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Donna Grant

"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."

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Donna Grant

"How can the thoughts be stopped? Tell the thoughts, 'You take care of your own issues; I am not on your side.' That way you will sit on God's side."

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Donna Grant

"Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track."

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Donna Grant

"The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him."

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Donna Grant

"A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations."

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Donna Grant

"Doubt isn't original."

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Donna Grant

"Thought is the parent of the deed."

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Steven Pinker
"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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Steven Pinker
"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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Steven Pinker
"Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage?"

Mind

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Steven Pinker
"As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones."

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Steven Pinker
"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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Steven Pinker
"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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Steven Pinker
"My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries."

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Steven Pinker
"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."

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Steven Pinker
"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."

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Steven Pinker
"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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