"Birth order effects are like those things that you think you see out of the corner of your eye but that disappear when you look at them closely. They do keep turning up but only because people keep looking for them and keep analyzing and reanalyzing their data until they find them."

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Source : Judith Rich Harris (2009). “The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do, Revised and Updated”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

Judith Rich Harris

#Eye Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Order Quotes

“Republican values - strong families, faith, personal responsibility and freedom, among others - are not unique to specific subsets of the electorate. They are universal values, and it is Republicans' job to remind Americans of that fact.”
“I doubt God keeps track of how many arguments we win; God may indeed keep track of how well we love.”
“The Japanese are human beings like the rest of us, but they will strongly resent this insinuation.”
“Everybody has to die, Firdaus. I will die, and you will die. The important thing is how to live until you die.”
“Better a man honor his profession than be honored by it.”
“If Woody Guthrie set the bar for American songwriters, Bob Dylan jumped right over it. No one I know will ever come close to possessing the beauty of melody and the use of language that Dylan shares with us, with ease.”
“She was flushed and felt intoxicated with the sound of her own voice and the unaccustomed taste of candor. It muddled her like wine, or like a first breath of freedom.”

Source : Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.48
“Did I choose you? Did you choose me? And what difference does it make? All that really matters, friend, is that we chose together.”

Source : Lois Wyse (1996). “Women Make the Best Friends: A Celebration”

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