"Darwin was one of our finest specimens. He did superbly what human beings are designed to do: manipulate social information to personal advantage. The information in question was the prevailing account of how human beings, and all organisms, came to exist; Darwin reshaped it in a way that radically raised his social status. When he died in 1882, his greatness was acclaimed in newspapers around the world, and he was buried in Westminster Abbey, not far from the body of Isaac Newton. Alpha-male territory."

Source : Robert Wright (2010). “The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology”, p.377, Vintage

Robert Wright

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“If you do a little bit of looking at books with your children and inspire them to be curious about the pictures and ... what the word means, but don't get into very structured systematic teaching at too early an age, ... and you also interact emotionally and have fun with pretend play ... then you have the best of both worlds.”

Source : "How to boost babies' brain power", www.cnn.com. November 14, 2002.
“To be ourselves we must have ourselves â€“ possess, if need be re-possess, our life-stories. We must â€œrecollectâ€ ourselves, recollect the inner drama, the narrative, of ourselves. A man needs such a narrative, a continuous inner narrative, to maintain his identity, his self.”

Source : Oliver Sacks (2014). “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: Picador Classic”, p.101, Pan Macmillan
“I still do find it very difficult in the West to connect to this politeness of smiling, not saying how you're thinking or not saying how you really feel.”
“Every dream has a process and a price tag. Those who embrace the process and pay the price, live the dream. Those who don't, just dream.”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 30, 2014
“I could count my modeling jobs on my hands and toes. When I graduated from college, I moved to New York specifically to study acting, and I needed to pay the bills, and it's better to make a couple thousand dollars in one day than to wait tables six days a week.”

Source : "Billy Baldwin: William Tells". Interview with Dennis Hensley, movieline.com. August 1, 1995.
“Don't ever look down, be comfortable with who you are, our flaws are what makes us perfect.”
“Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.”
“Now I know I'll never be numb again. A mother is condemned to feel everything forever. And I'm finally afraid, condemned to fear everything forever. But that makes sense: feel someone else's pain, feel someone else's everything.And he's my baby, so everything's okay.”

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