"If you want to burrow a message into a human mind. Work it into a story"

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Jonathan Gottschall

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“English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.”
“I'm absolutely confident that the God that I worship abhors violence.”
“Fact is stranger than fiction.”
“Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.”
“Nobody loves the rat race, but nobody can think of anything elseâ€”Satan has us just where he wants us.”
“I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.”
“I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the latent genius of some youth is more easily brought into action this way, than by the more sordid gratification of self-interest.”

Source : Joseph Lancaster (1803). “Improvements in education, as it respects the industrious classes of the community”, p.48
“Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology.”

Source : "Engineering Food for All". www.nytimes.com. August 18, 2011.

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