Paul Bloom We’d be really screwed if we had to start our life over again as children with our brains right now, because I think we lose the plasticity and flexibility. – Paul Bloom Brains Quotes Children Quotes Flexibility Quotes Life Quotes Lose Quotes Plasticity Quotes Screwed Quotes Start Quotes You’d expect, as good Darwinian creatures, we would evolve to be fascinated with how the world really is, and we would use language to convey real-world information, we’d be obsessed with knowing the way things are, and we would entirely reject stories that aren’t true. They’re useless. But that’s not the way we work. One way to make a baby cry is to expose it to cries of other babies. There’s sort of contagiousness to the crying. It’s not just crying. We also know that if a baby sees another human in silent pain, it will distress the baby. It seems part of our very nature is to suffer at the suffering of others.
Robert C O'Brien The NSC staff should not, as it has in the past, duplicate the work of military officers, diplomats or intelligence officers. – Robert C O’Brien
Jennifer Egan I’ve never been that confident. I don’t tend to think, swaggeringly, ‘I’m going to ace this.’ It’s just not who I am. – Jennifer Egan
Nick Johnson A lot of the things that until now seemed unthinkable are starting to be thinkable. – Nick Johnson
Andrea Roth Actors tell stories and we play different characters, and not all of them are healthy. – Andrea Roth
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