"People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family."

Change, Death, Family, People

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"People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family."

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"Time does not change us. It just unfolds us."

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"When things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. It's because a little piece gets lost - the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. The whole shape has changed."

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"No, what is important is neither linearity or non-linearity, but the change, the degree of change from something that doesn't move to other events with different tempos in particular."

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"The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform."

Rahm Emanuel, American Politician

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"And I like the idea of change. Because I don't see why we should hang a painting on the wall and then just not think of it anymore because it's there like a piece of furniture."

Minoru Yamasaki, American Architect

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"It's quite nice to see that I didn't have to change who I was to reach two very different types of people."

Marc Jacobs, American Designer

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"Slowness to change usually means fear of the new."

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"Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families."

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"Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen."

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"Primates will continue to play social games without the least insight into what is killing them."

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"Cult recruiting methods based on dosing victims with the brain chemicals released during capture bonding would make cults even more of a problem than they are now."

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"Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error."

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"I can't think of anyone who is up on evolutionary psychology and related areas who is deluded enough to be called a utopian."

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"Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention."

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"I suspect that a substantial fraction of human problems in the world today, not just cults, result from the mismatch between the current environment and the environment in which we evolved."

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"If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience."

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"Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and endorphins."

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