"Astrology had an important role in the ancient world. You can't understand many things unless you know something about astrology - the plays of Shakespeare and so on."

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Steven Pinker

#Play Quotes #Astrology Quotes #Important Quotes

“We can cross the rivers of doubt and discouragement on the bridge of faith even before we get to them”
“Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.”
“Everything about yesterday has gone with yesterday. Today, it is needed to say new things.”
“For me the problem of induction is a problem about the world: a problem of how we, as we are now (by our present scientific lights), in a world we never made, should stand better than random, or coin-tossing chances changes of coming out right when we predict by inductions. . . .”
“I was taught in my religious upbringing to spell God with a dash, G-d. But now my dash is pink.”
“Life is this simple: we are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and the divine is shining through it all the time. This is not just a nice story or a fable, it is true.”
“We need to look at the repetitions in the stories we tell ourselves [and] at the process of the stories rather than merely their surface content. Then we can begin to experiment with changing the filter through which we look at the world, start to edit the story and thus regain flexibility where we have been getting stuck”
“I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.”

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