"Gossip is certainly one of the things that language is useful for, because it's always handy to know who needs a favor, who can offer a favor, who's available, who's under the protection of a jealous spouse. And being the first to get a piece of gossip is like engaging in insider trading: You can capitalize on an opportunity before anyone else can."

-- Steven Pinker

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“What is the difference between Lomborg's view of humanity and Hitler's? ...If you were to accept Lomborg's way of thinking, then maybe what Hitler did was the right thing.”
“I have a European frame of mind and Europe is my home.”
“Man, the feeling of the make is something that I canâ€™t put to words, itâ€™s the very best feeling in the world. I just chase that, itâ€™s a very real feeling and straight up, I am addicted to it.”
“you must be careful never to allow doubt to paralyze you. always take the decisions you need to take, even if you're not sure you're doing the right thing. You'll never go wrong if, when you make a decision, you keep in mind an old German proverb: 'The devil is in the detail.' Remember that proverb and you'll always be able to turn a wrong decision into a right one.”
“Psychologists would say that the only two important forms of social learning are imitation and teaching, and they will spend time trying to figure out if animals imitate or teach. Sometimes they find they do; sometimes they find they don't. And so that's kind of the level of controversy there. Biologists would include imitation and teaching and a range of other kinds of social learning. So we would call that culture, whereas the psychologist wouldn't.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Rain scatters plum petals; Weeping stains the earth. One can only take shelter And wait for clearing.”
“If you're not willing to sound stupid you don't deserve to be in love.”
“I accept the people's will. As a revolutionary, I have no right to disregard the will of the people.”

Source : "Haiti: An insider's history of the rise and fall of the Duvaliers". Book by Elizabeth Abbott (p. 103), 1988.

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