"Consciousness surely does not depend on language. Babies, many animals, and patients robbed of speech by brain damage are not insensate robots; they have reactions like ours that indicate that someone's home."

-- Steven Pinker

#Baby Quotes #Home Quotes #Animal Quotes

“How are you going to do great things if you are not committed to your work.”
“I like to make pictures about people who make a difference.”
“Sinead broke in. "The cops need to know what to do with Evan, Amy. What should I tell them?" "Shoot to kill?" Ian suggested.”
“Looking deeply into the wrong perceptions, ideas, and notions that are at the base of our suffering is the most important practice in Buddhist meditation.”
“All reaction is limited by, and dependant on, what it is reacting against.”
“One of the most effective ways to learn about oneself is by taking seriously the cultures of others. It forces you to pay attention to those details of life which differentiate them from you.”
“Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.”
“This doctrine of Christ and of the apostles, from which the true faith of the primitive church was received, the apostles at first delivered orally, without writing, but later, not by any human counsel but by the will of God, they handed it on in the Scriptures.”

Source : Martin Chemnitz (1971). “Examination of the Council of Trent”

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