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Steven Pinker
“Humans are so innately hardwired for language that they can no more suppress their ability to learn and use language than they can suppress the instinct to pull a hand back from a hot surface.”
Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

Anaïs Nin
“I’ll let you explain me to myself—that sounds intelligent and fantastic. Don’t worry about offending me—that’s quite impossible. .”
Anaïs Nin, A Literate Passion: Letters of Anais Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953

Robert M. Sapolsky
“Eyes often have an implicit censorious power.22 Post a large picture of a pair of eyes at a bus stop (versus a picture of flowers), and people become more likely to clean up litter. Post a picture of eyes in a workplace coffee room, and the money paid on the honor system triples. Show a pair of eyes on a computer screen and people become more generous in online economic games.”
Robert M. Sapolsky, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

Oliver Sacks
“One must drop all presuppositions and dogmas and rules - for there only lead to stalemate or disaster; one must cease to regard all patients as replicas, and honor each one with individual reactions and propensities; and, in this way, with the patient as one's equal, one's co-explorer, not one's puppet, one may find therapeutic ways which are better than other ways, tactics which can be modified as occasion requires.”
Oliver Sacks, Awakenings

Robert M. Sapolsky
“You don’t have to choose between being scientific and being compassionate.”
Robert M. Sapolsky, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

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