#rain

Sometimes you can know too much. A lot of brainy people like Stephen Fry are quite depressive. ↗

— Karl Pilkington

#depressive #fry #know #like #lot

But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#coming #depend #genetically #information #many

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

I want to wake up every day and feel that I'm training harder than my competitors, that I'm dieting harder, that I'm recovering better. That's what gives me confidence when I'm lining up on the blocks. I've never gone out to prove people wrong. I just want to be the best that I can possibly be. ↗

— Oscar Pistorius

#better #blocks #competitors #confidence #day

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

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

It's like when people talk about driving F1 cars in the rain. I have absolutely no problem with it. ↗

— Alain Prost

#absolutely #cars #driving #f1 #i

I desire to assist in attracting to this profession young men of character and ability, also to help those already engaged in the profession to acquire the highest moral and intellectual training. ↗

— Joseph Pulitzer

#acquire #already #also #assist #attracting

Never dance in a puddle when there's a hole in your shoe (it's always best to take your shoes off first). ↗

— John D. Rhodes

#dance #funny #humor #rain #shoes

Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#brains #heart #passing #regret #restored