Steven Pinker (Steven Arthur Pinker) Quotes
The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing.
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Regardless of the technology, we at Cisco believe that there is a need to 'connect the unconnected,' whether it is using 3G, 4G or Wi-Fi. We are working on enabling heterogeneous access across different technologies. The basic need to 'connect to unconnected' still remains.
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I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.
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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.
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There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
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You didn't hear anything about 'Celtic Pride' when they had Sidney Wicks and Curtis Rowe and they were only winning 32 games a year.
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It's really weird to be playing chords again. Haven't played chords for a long time. I realised I haven't played chord changes since OK Computer and stuff like that.
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I want to see more sports in schools.
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Indian-styled garments are very popular in the U.S., especially in areas near the beach, like Hawaii and Los Angeles.
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When you're put in a position to really affect young people who are going to run the world one day, if you're able to be in their life at a young age and make a positive impact, I think that's a beautiful thing.
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Once your dream is fulfilled you face another one.
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We should remember that there are nations which meet more than 30 to 60% of their power requirements through the nuclear power system.
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Faith I have, in myself, in humanity, in the worthwhileness of the pursuits in entertainment for the masses. But wide awake, not blind faith, moves me. My operations are based on experience, thoughtful observation and warm fellowship with my neighbors at home and around the world.
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The sense of motion in painting and sculpture has long been considered as one of the primary elements of the composition.
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My kids know there's no candy, no soda, until the weekend. Those are the days they get to indulge in their sweets. We're big on organic food. I'm not a diet guy; I don't believe in diets. I just believe in a great meal plan.
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I am not disposed to complain that I have planted and others have gathered the fruits.
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My experience of being on the public platform got more multi-faceted, multi-dimensional, and my place in the public eye, I think, has always been a little more than just what is going on in that time in my life.
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Sarajevo was this beautiful city, very cosmopolitan, multiethnic, full of wonderful people, artists and writers and poets and Serbs and Muslims and Croats, and living side by side. And then this medieval siege, and it was a medieval siege, came, and the Bosnian Serbs were on the hills lobbing in rockets and grenades and mortars.
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Alaskans are basically 'leave me alone' type people who respect and embrace different strokes.
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I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.
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I believe that much of the secret of soul-winning lies in having bowels of compassion, in having spirits that can be touched with the feeling of human infirmities.
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Love the things you love as best as you can love them in the time you have in their presence.
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That's such a powerless place for me to think about: what is working against me. I don't think of what I don't have; I think of what I do and use that to get the next thing.
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The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing.
