Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Quotes
It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.
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There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.
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It does make me sad that there's a lot of great songs out there, and they're not going to see the light of day because they're competing with these tailgate songs.
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I love Dolce & Gabbana. I love Versace. I love the crazy, more eccentric stuff.
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I converse with my dog through ESP.
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Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.
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It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
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Ben Roethlisberger is a proven winner in athletic competition. But the measure of a true leader is how they conduct themselves 24/7, not just during a winning touchdown drive or a goal-line stance. Leadership isn't something that gets switched off because the game clock expires.
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Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the expansion of the forces of production of the material means of life, that is, the development of economy.
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Youth all over the world are very hungry to succeed.
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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I just want to do the best things I can do on the field, do the things I know how to in baseball, have fun.
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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At some particular time, when I was 14 years old, I've done something that people didn't expect.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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The image of Russian troops pouring into Ukraine and encircling military units in Crimea has been a wake-up call that will reverberate for a generation.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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I'm the first to admit that there's something unnatural... something unseemly... about rock stars mounting the pulpit and preaching at presidents, and then disappearing to their villas in the South of France. Talk about a fish out of water. It was weird enough when Jesse Helms showed up at a U2 concert... but this is really weird, isn't it?
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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You look at how Barack Obama has had to conduct himself as president. It reminds me of Jackie Robinson, how he had to be very careful to reassure people that this was all right.
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Regardless of our political stance, we cannot afford to perpetuate the Western car-centric model.
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Become placeless, for to change this place of water and clay is but to move from one prison to another.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
