"A huge amount of our everyday thinking - powerful, creative, and resonant stuff - is done socially: talking to other people, arguing with them, relying on them to recall information for us."

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Source : "Interview: Clive Thompson's 'Smarter Than You Think'". Interview with Michael Agger, www.newyorker.com. October 29, 2013.

Clive Thompson

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“We've got to step up our conservation efforts before it's too late. We're not protecting our lands and natural resources. Take the Grand Canyon for example; I'm sure that at one time it was a beautiful piece of land, and just look at the way we've let it go.”

Source : "Paulsen's Running - But Where Is He?" by David Holmstrom, www.csmonitor.com. February 05, 1992.
“A depression is a large-scale decline in production and trade...there is nothing in the nature of a free-market economy to cause such an event.”
“the more I know about people, the better I like my dogs.”
“Some people are born great and some have greatness thrust upon them”
“You are as welcome as the flowers in May.”

Source : Charles Macklin (1825). “Love a la Mode, Farce. - London, (Oxberry) 1825”, p.15
“Picture yourself crushin' Xzibit with your tough talk? That's like Christopher Reeve doing the crip walk.”

Source : Song: 3 Card Molly
“Both the 18th and the early 20th centuries, however, feature brilliant attacks on originality, and it's no doubt one of the hallmarks of romanticism to care about originality and suppose with a sometimes naive spontaneity that it's all that matters.”
“Congress is best viewed from a distanceâ€”the farther the betterâ€”because up close, it is truly ugly. I saw most of Congress as uncivil, incompetent at fulfilling their basic constitutional responsibilities (such as timely appropriations), micromanagerial, parochial, hypocritical, egotistical, thin-skinned and prone to put self (and re-election) before country.”

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