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“While our behavior is still significantly controlled by our genetic inheritance, we have, through our brains, a much richer opportunity to blaze new behavioral and cultural pathways on short timescales.”
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“The woman in charge of costuming assigned us our outfits and gave us a lecture on keeping things clean. She held up a calendar and said, "Ladies, you know what this is. Use it. I have scraped enough blood out from the crotches of elf knickers to last me the rest of my life. And don't tell me, 'I don't wear underpants, I'm a dancer.' You're not a dancer. If you were a real dancer you wouldn't be here. You're an elf and you're going to wear panties like an elf.”
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“I think I've done 200 plays and 125 movies, so I've been very lucky to have made a living at acting.”
Source : "PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Charles Durning". Playbill On-Line Interview, www.playbill.com. February 22, 2000. 
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“If you're looking for faults use a mirror, not a telescope”
Source : Twitter post from Jan 15, 2017
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“Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil.”
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“All you leave the world is what you've done. No one will ever know the conditions, the comments, the pressures. Only the work remains.”
Source : Ted Schwarz, Arnold Friberg (1985). “Arnold Friberg: the passion of a modern master”
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“The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals.”
Source : Rensis Likert (1967). “The human organization: its management and value”, McGraw Hill
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“You can't focus on other people's careers. Everybody is different.”
