"As people do a task, they improve at it."

-- Emily Oster

#People Quotes #Tasks Quotes

“Much to my surprise, the Islamic scriptures in the Quran were actually far less bloody and less violent than those in the Bible.”
“Many of the genetically modified foods will be safe, I'm sure. Will most of them be safe? Nobody knows.”
“The tale of the Divine Pity was never yet believed from lips that were not felt to be moved by human pity.”
“But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture.”
“The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say -- or their beliefs -- or sex.”
“Without my Johnson trademark mop of yellow hair, I think I would be nothing.”
“Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy.”
“...man can no more survive psychologically in a psychological milieu that does not respond empathetically to him, than he can survive physically in an atmosphere that contains no oxygen.”

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