"The female brain is predominantly hard-wired for empathy. The male brain is predominantly hard-wired for understanding and building systems."

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Source : Simon Baron-Cohen (2010). “The Essential Difference: Male and Female Brains and the Truth about Autism (Large Print 16pt)”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

Simon Baron-Cohen

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“My slogan is who needs fitness when you've got great equipment.”
“Television is so dictated by time constraints that you have to make quick decisions and go with them.”
“Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.”
“Most fears are not even based on our current reality. They are the product of imagined fears conjured up in our minds - the product of our own fantasies.”

Source : "Manage Fear So It Doesn’t Manage You" by Lauren Mackler, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 24, 2009.
“Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.”
“In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like a painting or a piece of sculpture-it won't accrue value as time goes on. Time is its enemy' time passing is merely the countdown for the parting between garden and gardener.”
“Ah, the power of two. There's nothing quite like it. Especially when it comes to paying utility bills, parenting, cooking elaborate meals, purchasing a grown-up bed, jumping rope and lifting heavy machinery. The world favours pairs. Who wants to waste the wood building an ark for singletons?”
“Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone - extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with one commanding characteristic - whether Prime Minister or Leader of the Opposition, whether preaching, praying, speechifying or scribbling - never a gentleman.”

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