#rain

Why do people believe that there are dangerous implications of the idea that the mind is a product of the brain, that the brain is organized in part by the genome, and that the genome was shaped by natural selection? ↗

— Steven Pinker

#brain #dangerous #genome #idea #implications

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery. ↗

— Plato

#important #most #nursery #part #proper

My mom and I used to listen to records, read, and take train rides across the country in the summer. It was a very chill life. She didn't expose me to anything that was ahead of my development, but she expected me to adjust to her world - she did not expect to adjust to mine. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#adjust #ahead #anything #chill #country

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights. ↗

— James K. Polk

#great #just #majorities #minorities #object

Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise! ↗

— Alexander Pope

#brain #chain #chambers #countless #hidden

I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#gentleman #i #know #like #listed

When we save the rain forest, the polar bear, and Al Gore, we should party so hard that Canada calls the cops on us for noise. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#al gore #bear #calls #canada #cops

I'm so interested in the brain. I read true crime. ↗

— Katie Price

#crime #i #interested #read #true

After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake. ↗

— Elvis Presley

#basic #could #day #eat #hard

By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint. ↗

— Sextus Propertius

#been #end #every #faith #gold