Joshua Foer Quotes
When we first hear a word, we start putting these associational hooks into it that make it easier to fish it back out at some later date.
Quotes to Explore
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I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
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William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.
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Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
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I'm quite claustrophobic, and I don't like everyone crowding around and shouting the same questions.
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I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason.
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I'm a guy who had to perform some way. I had to perform in some way. If not as an actor, I'd perform as an artist. It would have been something that would be outstanding in its own way.
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I wouldn't mind doing more in the kid's world because I think that might be just where I can be most useful to society, to the planet, if I can speak to children.
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I learned from my father that music is from God and the message is from God.
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The cause of Freedom and the cause of Peace are bound together.
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I am here convicted and wrongfully sentenced.
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A moral society will not set standards for becoming a parent, but it will establish irreducible minimums for maintaining that sacred status.
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Children teach you so much. You take another look at life when you have a child. Everything is new again for you. They ground you.
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a man can be given only what he can use; and he can use only that for which he has sacrificed something
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You see, in this country are a number of youths who do not like to work, and the college is an excellent place for them.
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No,” he responded, reaching out to trace the shell of her ear. “They grew back even more beautiful. Blue edged with silver.” Elena laughed at the scowl in his voice.
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Mathematicians come to the solution of a problem by the simple arrangement of the data, and reducing the reasoning to such simple operations, to judgments so brief, that they never lose sight of the evidence that serves as their guide.
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Even when she calls me sometimes, I wish I had something to offer her to make a day go easier, to make a night go faster.
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We need to push ourselves to make as many reductions as possible in our own energy use first - and that takes time. But we must do this quickly - the climate will not wait for us.
