"No matter how inured you get to atrocities, you're still always stunned and shocked by how cruel and wasteful Homo sapiens can be."

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Steven Pinker

#Atrocities Quotes #Matter Quotes #Stills Quotes

“You should smile more often.' 'Can't.' He grunted as he opened her shirt to expose her chest. 'My face might freeze like that.”
“Homosexuals cannot reproduce-so they must recruit ... and to freshen their ranks they must recruit the youth of America.”

Source : Anita Bryant (1977). “The Anita Bryant Story: The Survival of Our Nation's Families and the Threat of Militant Homosexuality”, Fleming H. Revell Company
“Economists who adhere to rational-expectations models of the world will never admit it, but a lot of what happens in markets is driven by pure stupidity - or, rather, inattention, misinformation about fundamentals, and an exaggerated focus on currently circulating stories.”
“I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I surprised everyone. I'm still surprising people.”
“I look at people holdings hands in the hallways, and I try to think how it all works. At the school dances, I sit in the background, and I tap my toe, and I wonder how many couples will dance to â€˜their song.â€™ In the hallways, I see the girls wearing the guysâ€™ jackets, and I think about the idea of property. And I wonder if anyone is really happy.”
“I've got the best job in the world being a senator from the United States, a senator from South Carolina in the United States Senate, representing South Carolina in the United States Senate is a dream job for me, but the world is literally falling apart. And we can't get anything done here at home. So that drives my thinking more than anything else.”
“My mother did not carry me around under her arm like a loaf of French bread the way former Governor Palin carries her son Trig around looking for sympathy and votes.”
“There is an army of waiters in this world.”

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