"And empathy is narrow; it connects us to particular individuals, real or imagined, but is insensitive to numerical differences and statistical data."

-- Paul Bloom

#Real Quotes #Data Quotes #Differences Quotes

“A Kerry footballer with an inferiority complex is one who thinks he's just as good as everybody else.”
“Only those who are ideologically opposed to military programs think of the defense budget as the first and best place to get resources for social welfare needs.”

Source : Herman Kahn (1985). “Thinking Unth 80SP”, p.32, Simon and Schuster
“If you're gonna make a change, you're gonna have to operate from a new belief that says life happens not to me but for me.”
“Well I would say that we're regular people first of all and we're normal and it's obvious by some of the things that have happened just because our name is famous we're not immune to tragedy.”
“That was the whole point of being special: You existed to make sure everyone else behaved, but that didn't mean YOU had to.”
“President Obama was asked not long ago to reflect on any mistakes he might have made. He said, well, 'I haven't communicated enough.' He said his job is to 'tell a story to the American people' - as if that's the whole problem here? He needs to talk more, and we need to be better listeners?”
“Physical qualities don't really matter much”
“Even that crazy lunatic, my aunt the Empress, wa absolutely sweet and charming.”

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