Gregory Berns Quotes

#1. The human brain takes in information from other people and incorporates it with the information coming from its own senses, neuroscientist Gregory Berns has written. Many times, the group's opinion trumps the individual's before he even becomes aware of it.

Alexandra Robbins

#2. I was starving before I hit Journey. Very, very rough times ... I didn't know where the next pay check was gonna come.

Jonathan Cain

#3. New Zealand's been pretty quiet on human rights issues, which we will be taking rather more interest in, and in international labor issues.

Helen Clark

#4. What It's Like to Be a Dog

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#5. Normally, stress is lowest in the morning and rises steadily throughout the day. But the presence of dogs kept self-reported stress at their morning levels all day long. The researchers also found that the presence of dogs increased communication between workers.

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#6. Because humans, in effect, created dogs through domestication, the canine mind reflects back to us how we see ourselves through the eyes, ears, and noses of another species.

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#7. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian--ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection that unattainable by the highest art.

Lytton Strachey

#8. A person can have the greatest idea in the world - completely different and novel - but if that person can't convince enough other people, it doesn't matter,

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#9. What's wrong with you?" Nika asks Madoc. He responds, "I'm an incurable asshole.

Shannon K. Butcher

#10. There were very few black people in Montana but we never felt out of place.

Charley Pride

#11. What are dogs thinking?" the grand conclusion was this: they're thinking about what we're thinking. The dog-human relationship was not one-sided. With their high degree of social and emotional intelligence, dogs reciprocated our feelings toward them. They truly are First Friend.

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#12. A high-powered, successful woman doesn't necessarily have the same support behind her that a man in that position would. Plus, she's expected to be a domestic goddess, as well as the best wife, mother, friend, and lover. But it's not just in politics: you see it in acting, too, and in journalism.

Raquel Cassidy

#13. There is, of course, great value in belonging to a group. Safety in numbers, for one. But there is also a mathematical explanation for why the brain is so willing to give up its own opinions: a group of people is more likely to be correct about something than an individual.

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