Elizabeth Spelke Quotes
The experiments of the infants and the monkeys, I think, make it extremely likely that these abilities are inborn.
Elizabeth Spelke
Quotes to Explore
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The famous passage from her book is often erroneously attributed to the inaugural address of Nelson Mandela. About the misattribution Williamson said, "Several years ago, this paragraph from A Return to Love began popping up everywhere, attributed to Nelson Mandela's 1994 inaugural address. As honored as I would be had President Mandela quoted my words, indeed he did not. I have no idea where that story came from, but I am gratified that the paragraph has come to mean so much to so many people.
Marianne Williamson
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The wolf cares not, how many the sheep be.
Plato
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Not by vows nor by womanish prayers is the help of the
gods obtained; success comes through vigilance, energy,
wise counsel.
Sallust
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He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do so.
Seneca the Younger
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It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.
Stephen Fry
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Ben Miller's writing has left a trail of clear and perfect images lasered permanently in my mind. His imagination is astounding in its breadth and detail, but it is the heart behind the words, the emotion he brings to the smallest moments, that makes me such an admirer of this writer and his work, and has me anxiously awaiting, and cheering for, the publication of River Bend Chronicle.
Hannah Tinti
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In fact, the underlying principle of the baroque is the idea of transformation, of movement, and animals becoming man, and man becoming animals, and mythology. It was a way to inspire pre-Christian character.
Camille Henrot
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You have the right to your own ideas and opinions, to make your own decisions, and to have things go your way at times. Stand up for those rights.
Beverly Engel
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I've always had an incredible interest in the villains, which are a lot more fun to play.
Joseph Morgan
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I don't think I consciously made a decision to be the 'gay singer' of Korea. I wasn't trying to make a scandal or create buzz; it literally just happened in the most organic and natural way.
MRSHLL
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Writing is rewriting. A writer writes. And be fearless. Some people are going to hate what you write. It’s going to make some of them mad. In the end, you have to write for yourself.
Ken Levine
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Experience is the great teacher; unfortunately, experience leaves mental scars, and scar tissue contracts.
William J. Mayo
