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Amanda Ripley

"By sort of combining the research of a lot of smart people, I came up with an equation for dread [dread=uncontrollability+unfamiliarity+imaginability+suffering+scale of destruction+unfairness]. The dread equation is a simplification, but it's a way to explain why we fear something so much when it is so unlikely. Part of it is the lack of control. That's why we're more scared of plane crashes than car crashes even though we know rationally which is more dangerous."

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

Amanda Ripley

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“We need to look at learning as the product of educational self-organization. Itâ€™s not about making learning happen; itâ€™s about letting it happen.”
“Canadians shouldn't come down to Southern California and take jobs away from Mexicans.”
“I cannot explain something that no one has ever figured out.”
“In rural areas of America, there is a growing increase in poverty, homelessness and hunger. You cannot separate these factors from domestic violence ?- a mother with three kids and no financial security is going to stiffen her lip and take the abuse, because not only does she have nowhere else to go, she has three children depending on her for survival.”
“Athletics provided a life preserver for me, and that maybe kept me out of trouble. I never partied in high school. I mostly just dated.”
“Sexual difference is probably the issue in our time which could be our 'salvation' if we thought it through.”

Source : Luce Irigaray (1993). “An Ethics of Sexual Difference”, p.5, Cornell University Press
“Of all the statements that have been made with respect to theories on the origin of life, the statement that the Second Law of Thermodynamics poses no problem for an evolutionary origin of life is the most absurdâ€¦ The operation of natural processes on which the Second Law of Thermodynamics is based is alone sufficient, therefore, to preclude the spontaneous evolutionary origin of the immense biological order required for the origin of life.”
“When my father made 'Jean de Florette' and 'Manon des Sources' back to back, everybody said, 'Why two movies?' But you need two movies to show how criminality evolves, and to tell the story: You can't show a man in love with so many women in one big biopic.”

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