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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#becomes #began #complicated #ever #first

The Sand Pebbles has always been one of my favorite films, I suppose because its the most difficult film - from a physical and logistical standpoint - that I've ever made. ↗

— Robert Wise

#because #been #difficult #ever #favorite

If you were to hold me down and tickle me to pick my favorite 'plus-comic,' it would have to be Kevin James, a broad physical pratfaller capable of deadpan underplay, a technique honed from years of reaction-shot close-ups on TV, where every teeny fraction of a squint registers. ↗

— James Wolcott

#capable #down #every #favorite #fraction

I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something. ↗

— George Woodcock

#i #like #mathematicians #me #move

I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect of medicine, which had links with psychology, aggression, behavior, and human affairs. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#aggression #aspect #behavior #difficult #had

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#follies #history #little #mankind #misfortunes

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

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I spent a lot of time in the school psychologist's office. I didn't apply myself. My mother thought I had learning disabilities. ↗

— Roger Goodell

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All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is nature's only irreducible essence... I had to place myself amidst the variation. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

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Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science. ↗

— Robert Graves

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