Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, 'No,' because it's an oblate spheroid. They suffer from 'the curse of knowledge': the inability to imagine what it's like not to know something that they know.

Author: Steven Pinker

Author: Steven Pinker

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She threw back her head with a laugh that made her chins ripple like little waves.

Author: Edith Wharton
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Being dishonest to himself is the biggest crime any human can make

Author: Loknath
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You Know love when you see it, hear it, and feel it." ~ Amunhotep El Bey

Author: Amunhotep El Bey
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Understanding comes out of immense love, which is harder to get in life.

Author: Debolina Bhawal
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...capitalism satisfied the Christian demand for an institution that channels selfish human desire t

Author: Dinesh D'Souza
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Brushing the clouds away from my eyes, I see clarity in the raindrop and beauty in the first ray of

Author: Virginia Alison
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Obama had campaigned against Bush's ideas and approaches. But, Donilon, for one, thought that Obama

Author: Bob Woodward
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The child inside me wouldn't stop crying. Every time it loses something so important to it. A person

Author: Akshay Vasu
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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gat

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When she made her way to the big picture window that framed the dining room table she froze. She sto

Author: Ann Brashares
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You say ‘cure.’ I hear ‘you’re not human enough.

Author: John Scalzi
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In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but va

Author: Aung San Suu Kyi
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The child, unhampered, does not waste time.

Author: Caroline Pratt
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Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highwa

Author: Dennis Miller
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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

Author: Oscar Wilde
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We’re doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That’s what it is to be alive. It’s pretty dense kid

Author: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. P

Author: Abdullah Ibrahim
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It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement —

Author: Sigmund Freud
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Necessity is not the mother of invention. Knowledge and experiment are its parents. It sometimes hap

Author: Willis R. Whitney
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It is stupid to hope, but sometimes hope is all you have.

Author: Cassandra Clare
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There might be some sort of justification for the savage societies in which a man had to expect that

Author: Ayn Rand
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There might have been prettier women in the room but, when she turned those babies on, fluttered her

Author: Thomm Quackenbush
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When you are Real you don't mind being hurt.

Author: Margery Williams Bianco
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True Devdas are Authors

Author: Santosh Avvannavar
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When nobody interferes with what you wear and how you wear, you are living in a civilised country at

Author: Mehmet Murat ildan
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The actual history of interracial rape - according to FBI statistics - is that, since the 70's, appr

Author: Ann Coulter
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But clearly life took people and shook them around until finally they were unrecognizable even to th

Author: Meg Wolitzer
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I was born and raised Catholic, so it's in my blood. I don't go to church... I was born and raised C

Author: Tom Araya
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If you see many paths before you, don't be afraid; if you see only one path before you, then be afra

Author: Mehmet Murat ildan
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Don't forget, I'm 39. I didn't come here just for the money to impress myself. I'm not saying I am g

Author: Jaromir Jagr
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That's the thing you learn about values: they're what people make up to justify what they did.

Author: Max Barry
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God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
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All feel justified. To find truth, a man must consider the possibility that he is wrong.

Author: Lance Conrad
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There is no separate entity that could be enlightened or unenlightened. There are only innumerable e

Author: Enza Vita
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I was always willing to take a great deal of the burden of getting along in life on my own shoulders

Author: Raquel Welch
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In modern states, the citizen is politically impotent. A citizen, it is true, may complain, make sug

Author: Mark Mirabello
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Feminists are incapable of crafting a coherent argument using their words. It almost always involves

Author: Hannah Bleau
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If we only look within, we will see he Light as if we were seeing our own image in a mirror. (122)

Author: Swami Satchidananda
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Who we are and where we want to go determines what we do now and what we accomplish over time.

Author: Jimmy Tomczak
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Impossible” is subjective

Author: Mayur Ramgir
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It’s a tricky art, working with them in their purest form,” she mused. “Simultaneously simple yet in

Author: Richelle Mead
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Armise and I had met through the scope of our rifles and sometimes I wondered if that was also where

Author: S.A. McAuley
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Suddenly he knew joy and sorrow felted into one fabric. Courage and fear were one thing too.

Author: John Steinbeck
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I sometimes forget to have breakfast in the morning, but when I actually buy a box of cereal, I will

Author: Ryan Gosling
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Hazel, like nearly all wild animals, was unaccustomed to look up at the sky. What he thought of as t

Author: Richard Adams
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Sometimes a fairy godmother needs more than magic.

Author: Chris Pavesic
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One must do the outrageous with style. With élan. With complete conviction.

Author: Carolyn Jewel
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Karma is a balance sheet of life which debits and credit all your deeds.YourWhich is audited by our

Author: Abhysheq Shukla
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She knows there are traps everywhere that can make her cry, she knows the way she dies a little ever

Author: Emily St. John Mandel
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I love to talk about cooking and recipes, but I love as much talking about how food and cooking can

Author: Jose Andres
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Days passing with discovery are the days of real happiness.

Author: Mehmet Murat ildan
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Elphaba’s face darkened again. Then she asked, hesitantly, as if afraid of the answer, “So, how do y

Author: Abramelin Keldor
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The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Author: Thomas Huxley
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Evil possesses an instinct for theater, which is why, in an era of gaudy and gifted media, evil may

Author: Lance Morrow
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People who think that Sylvia Plath was a poor, sensitive poet are not getting that she had great amo

Author: Elizabeth Wurtzel
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To achieve a great success, you must first have yourself behind yourself as your greatest supporter!

Author: Mehmet Murat ildan
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Only write a story that only you can write.

Author: Alysha Speer
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I always strive to create a setting that leaves the readers' imagination room to roam. That way, eve

Author: P.S. Bartlett
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Success on the outside means nothing unless you also have success within...worry drains the mind of

Author: Mlungisi Simelane
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There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

Author: Booker T. Washington
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Greatness is unleashed when you develop faith in the power of your faith.

Author: Phumi Ngwane
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The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it.

Author: David Chipperfield
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So, look at the world around you, and if you notice things that don't seem right - injustices, ineff

Author: Chad Orzel
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Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach thy hand For I am drowning in a stormier sea Than Simon on t

Author: Oscar Wilde
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I'm sorry if me being turned on turns you on.

Author: Kirsty Moseley
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When you've been lost as I have," he once said, "you get good at finding your way home.

Author: Emily Henry
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My dad is too cute. Every morning, he sends me one motivational quote. I have a folder full of all h

Author: Alia Bhatt
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Taking what is, then making it into what it can be through the power of creation that we all possess

Author: Steven Redhead
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The emotions - love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust - are in t

Author: John Cage
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Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, a

Author: Stephen King
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My visit to Auschwitz will certainly be one of the most unforgettable events of my life. It is a blo

Author: Billy Graham
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Why would you put your self esteem in the hands of complete strangers?

Author: Helen Banham Carter
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I did a production of 'Journey's End,' an RC Sherriff play about World War I, at the Edinburgh Festi

Author: Tom Hiddleston
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I'm being uprooted," Dino said. "You're being transplanted," Viv replied, "and to a better home.

Author: Stuart Woods
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I will not cease to walk in the direction towards my purpose, even if it means constantly walking on

Author: Gift Gugu Mona
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Writing isn't black magic. You just have to come up with an idea...

Author: Karl Ove Knausgård
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User-centered design means working with your users all throughout the project.

Author: Donald Norman
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Read. Learn. Write. Travel.

Author: Unknown
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How do I feel today? I feel as unfit as an unfiddle,And it is the result of a certain turbulence in

Author: Ogden Nash
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I've sent you roses many times. I've held your hand in mine

Author: Richard L. Ratliff
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The only limits we have are the ones we give ourselves.

Author: S.M. Oberhansley
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...it was born out of habits of mind produced by Christianity: that if you sacrificed yourself you w

Author: Peter Carey
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No matter who you are, what you've accomplished, what your financial situation is - when you're deal

Author: Maria Shriver
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And then everything was in the hands of gravity, which has never had much love for the terminally st

Author: Mira Grant
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I have carried only a few ideas out of life's storm - and not one feeling. I have long lived accordi

Author: Mikhail Lermontov
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Allow the courage to create overwhelmed you.

Author: Micheline Jean Louis
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If your children know who God is they will know who they are, regardless of where you or they call h

Author: Shannon L. Alder
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Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology

Author: Jean Piaget
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Breathe out unwanted thoughts with your exhale and re-focus your attention directly on what is impor

Author: Amit Ray
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I would rather be wise and than right and ignorant.

Author: Chris Page
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The dead only knows their world.

Author: Unknown
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Some people are each holding on to a lover of theirs who no longer loves them and/or who they no lon

Author: Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Great ideas often have no reference points.We have nothing to compare them to. They are original, an

Author: David Hieatt
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Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what

Author: Louis L'Amour
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Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct

Author: Simon Schama
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In the end, everything is found to be wanting.

Author: Frank Lentricchia
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Love is a divine lullaby

Author: Ram Sai Nag
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Water doesn't know where it's going to flow, it just flows.

Author: Bert McCoy
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It seems impossible that you could get something from nothing, but the fact that once there was noth

Author: Bill Bryson