"Basketball is an intricate, high-speed game filled with split-second, spontaneous decisions. But that spontaneity is possible only when everyone first engages in hours of highly repetitive and structured practice--perfecting their shooting, dribbling, and passing and running plays over and over again--and agrees to play a carefully defined role on the court. . . . spontaneity isn't random."

-- Malcolm Gladwell

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“Man was not intended by nature to live in communities and be civilized.”
“Yes, expertise puts on in position to have further, cognitive pleasures, but these pleasures are distinct from the sensory pleasure of tasting wines”
“The media insists on taking what someone didn't mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.”
“We may assume the superiority ceteris paribus of the demonstration which derives from fewer postulates or hypotheses - in short, from fewer premises.”
“I really want the pope to come into the pulpit and tell Filipinos to their faces what's wrong with them, because we refuse to listen to ourselves.”
“You can cut your hair how you want, but I think you should get to where you wear it normal for the future.”
“The greatest threat to women (and by extension humanity) is the growth and acceptance of a misogynistic, authoritarian, and violent culture of militarism.”
“No one who traces the history of motherhood, of the home, of child-rearing practices will ever assume the eternal permanence of our own way of institutionalizing them.”

Source : Jessie Bernard (1975). “The future of motherhood”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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