"Language allows you to implant a thought from your mind directly into someone else's mind, and they can attempt to do the same to you, without either of you having to perform surgery."

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Source : Mark Pagel (2012). “Wired for Culture: The Natural History of Human Cooperation”, p.290, Penguin UK

Mark Pagel

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“My young men shall never work. Men who work cannot dream, and wisdom comes to us in dreams.”

Source : "Wisdom of the North American Indian in speech and legend". Book by Alexander Francis Chamberlain, 1913.
“The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.”
“I'm a bold Christian, not a scaredy-cat Christian.”
“I want my words to survive translation. I know when I write a book now I will have to go and spend three days being intensely interrogated by journalists in Denmark or wherever. That fact, I believe, informs the way I write - with those Danish journalists leaning over my shoulder.”
“It means to educate myself incessantly about the world around me.”
“Things that are really offensive make me laugh because I like things that push the envelope, go out on a limb, and are bold.”

Source : "Courteney Cox Talks Directorial Debut JUST BEFORE I GO, Gus Van Sant’s Advice, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 26, 2015.
“A great many complimentary things have been said about the faculty of memory, and if you look in a good quotation book you will find them neatly arranged.”
“Paris has always seemed to me to be the only city in which one can live as one sees fit.”

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