"All our behaviours are a result of neurophysiological activity in the brain. There is no reason to believe there is any magic going on."

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Source : "Steven Pinker: The evolutionary man". Interview with John Crace, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2008.

Steven Pinker

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“Well, as a former small businessperson - I understand what's going on, I think in the business community. And businesspeople around the country are looking at all the spending and all the debt. They're looking at all the policies coming out of this Congress and this administration the last two years, and they - it's created all this uncertainty.”
“Venture too far for love, she tells herself, and you renounce citizenship in the country you've made for yourself.”
“As humans, no matter our level of understanding, we are very complex beings with very complex thoughts. There are ideas that each of us have within our heads that are so different from each other it is mind boggling.”

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“And you wish to be a poet; and you wish to be a lover.”
“I'm seeing more and more books by celebrity authors, and I'm not happy to see them. I'd rather see publishing budgets devoted to genuine talents.”

Source : "Book World Live: Kid's Books". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. December 13, 2005.
“Animal abuse is rampant in the U.S., right under everyone's eyes, for the entertainment of the public. The brutal confinement and pain of training methods of wild animals in the circus, the aquatic and theatrical shows, leads to retaliation by the animals. Eventually they find the right time to strike out, and they will.”
“Taking control of your own creation, you can ultimately affect your future.”

Source : FaceBook post by Dee Wallace from Jan 22, 2014
“It's the face itself that I love, not that face at twenty-eight or thirty-four or forty-three. It's that face.”

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