Gad Saad Quotes

#1. I have enormous respect for Steve Johnson, and as I've told him, Feed was one of the inspirations for Salon. They were up there before we were. And also for Joey and the Suck people.

David Talbot

#2. The desperate need to belong is perhaps never as great as during adolescence. Advertisers seek to communicate with teenagers by frequently using that powerful appeal.

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J.K. Rowling

#4. In a sense, New Age gurus are akin to postmodernists within academia. They dispense meaningless drivel that masquerades as profound truths whilst in reality it is a mere exercise in obscurantism

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#5. I'm really a scientist. I follow recipes exactly - until I decide not to. And then I'll follow something else exactly. I may decide I could turn this peach tart into a plum tart, but if I'm following a recipe, I follow it exactly.

Ina Garten

#6. An infinite advertising budget cannot counteract products that are disconnected from our biological heritage.

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#7. The "us versus them" mindset coupled with our social nature implies that we have an innate need to belong to clearly defined in-groups.

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#8. Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it.

Salvador Dali

#9. She kept hoping that something would happen to rescue her from her own small-scale, predictable dreams.

Chuck Palahniuk

#10. There is not a single darkness if you life that God cannot bring His light upon.

Beth Moore

#11. There is nothing more comfortable than a caterpillar and nothing more made for love than a butterfly. We need dresses that crawl and dresses that fly. Fashion is at once a captapillar and a butterfly, caterpillar by day, butterfly by night

Coco Chanel

#12. These politically correct language initiatives are misguided and harmful. They create highly entitled professional "victims" who expect to be free from any offense, and they engender a stifling atmosphere where all individuals walk on eggshells lest they might commit a linguistic capital crime.

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#13. Litterature provides us with the opportunity to escape into fictional worlds that are ultimately rooted in human universals shaped by common biological forces.

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#14. Humans have an evolved capacity to engage in self-deception in order to navigate through life in a delusional state of blissful ignorance.

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#15. Science and reason liberate us from the shackles of superstition by offering us a framework for understanding our shared humanity. Ultimately, we all have the capacity to treasure life and enrich the world in incalculable ways.

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#16. Roughly 90 percent of songs have mating as their central theme, and this holds true regardless of cultural setting or historical period.

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#17. All other things equal, advertisements containing cute babies, sexy endorsers, and fear-inducing stimuli are typically attention grabbing and will likely yield greater recall.

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#18. Hope is an elixir of life. It is the engine that propels us forward in our pursuit of countless goals, all of which might otherwise be impossible to undertake if we were bereft of hope.

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#19. I have seldom heard people engaging in deep intellectual conversations. Most chats are either about mundane life decisions [ ... ] or juicy gossip.

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