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"It shifted attention away from that and I've never been someone who liked the attention from the media anyway."

"You glance at an e-mail. You give more attention to a real letter."

"I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention."

"Make It Fun. Have you ever been publicly acknowledged or called upon in a room filled with people? Depending on your personality type, it can be either exhilarating or mortifying. It certainly does grab your attention, as well as everyone else's!"

"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined."

"It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers."
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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."

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

"Most of the suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, a place not lacking in wealth. But due to rapid population growth, the wealth per capita has fallen by about half in a generation."

"People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations."

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

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

"As for leadership, I am the kind who leads reluctantly and more by example than anything else. Someone had to be on the incorporation papers as president."

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

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