Andrew B. Newberg Quotes
The brain is a stubborn organ. Once its primary set of beliefs has been established, the brain finds it difficult to integrate opposing ideas and beliefs. This has profound consequences for individuals and society and helps to explain why some people cannot abandon destructive beliefs, be they religious, political or psychological.
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The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.
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I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.
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You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.
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These days, with 'American Idol' and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.
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Young people have so many letdowns that people don't realize.
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'The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.
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Education should not be about building more schools and maintaining a system that dates back to the Industrial Revolution. We can achieve so much more, at unmatched scale with software and interactive learning.
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What we discovered, counter-intuitively, is that when you start killing a cancer cell, one of the things it does in order to survive is to spread even further. It causes itself to form new blood vessels. We've termed this 'reactionary angiogenesis.'
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The IronClad is faster than most thumb drives but far slower than a standard hard drive. Boot up, application launch and other Windows operations feel sluggish, though still usable.
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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I'm on Twitter a lot of the day because I really like Twitter. It's great for jokes. But when I'm writing, I can't do anything else. I can't even listen to music. I just have to write, and then I can do something else. I can't multitask.
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People know me for up – tempo songs because of my hits.
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Halva works brilliantly in ice-cream.
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I've always been able to sense the relationship between two people based on how one person says the other's name!
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Independence is the only way Scotland can realise its full political and cultural potential in the 21st century.
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It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
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I have to believe that people can change, otherwise I deny the Gospel, and I will not do that.
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Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.
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Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
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Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.
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For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.
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The brain is a stubborn organ. Once its primary set of beliefs has been established, the brain finds it difficult to integrate opposing ideas and beliefs. This has profound consequences for individuals and society and helps to explain why some people cannot abandon destructive beliefs, be they religious, political or psychological.
