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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
 
When all think alike, no one thinks very much.
 
Remember your math: an anecdote is not a trend.
 
Never give up. No matter what is happening, no matter what is going on around you, never give up.
 
Life has become better, and no one seems to know about it.
 
People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rethorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT be interested in it?' Everything you call 'human nature' and consciousness arises from it.
 
General Systems Theory... possibly the model of the world as a great organization can help to reinforce the sense of reverence for the living which we have almost lost.
 
The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other.
 
But I hold that he who teaches that not reason but love should rule opens up the way for those who rule by hate.
 
BOUNDARY: In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of another.
 
Most women set out to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.
 
Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere.
 
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
 
The rules of the universe that we think we know are buried deep in our processes of perception.
 
If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?
 
If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.
 
Don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds.
 
È meglio fallire nell'originalità che avere successo nell'imitazione.
 
Chapter 3 discusses some unsettling research—stick your average person in a brain scanner, and show him a picture of someone of another race for only a tenth of a second. This is too fast for him to be aware of what he saw. But thanks to that anatomical shortcut, the amygdala knows . . . and activates. In contrast, show the picture for a longer time. Again the amygdala activates, but then the cognitive dlPFC does as well, inhibiting the amygdala—the effort to control what is for most people an unpalatable initial response.
 
Of necessity, the autobiographical self is not just about one individual but about all the others that an individual interacts with. Of necessity, it incorporates the culture in which the interactions took place.
 
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