"As in a Russian doll, however, the outer layers always contain an inner core. Instead of evolution having replaced simpler forms of empathy with more advanced ones, the latter are merely elaborations on the former and remain dependent on them. This also means that empathy comes naturally to us. It is not something we only learn later in life, or that is culturally constructed."

-- Frans de Waal

#Mean Quotes #Empathy Quotes #Dolls Quotes

“I want to preserve the free and open Internet - the experience that most users and entrepreneurs have come to expect and enjoy today and that has unleashed impressive innovation, job creation, and investment.”

Source : "Conversation: Julius Genachowski on Net Neutrality". Interview with Thessaly La Force, www.newyorker.com. September 23, 2009.
“It is impossible to tell whether prohibition is a good thing or a bad thing. It has never been enforced in this country.”
“Make Earth Day Every Day.â€Â While we might not always live up to this ideal, I try to keep this quote from Denis Hayes, founder of the Earth Day Network and president of Seattleâ€™s Bullitt Foundation, in mind when I need a little extra motivation to be a better environmentalist: â€œListen up, you couch potatoes: each recycled beer can saves enough electricity to run a television for three hours.”
“They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me.”
“Believing we know what makes prosperity work, ignoring the nature of the actual prosperity all around, we change the rules within which the Internet revolution lives. These changes will end the revolution.”
“Good teachers are to education what education is to all other professionsâ€”the indispensable element, the sunlight and oxygen, the foundation on which everything else is built.”
“And if you feel that everyone has rejected you and your ideas let me tell you this, you are most assuredly in good company.”
“Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.”

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