Catherine Doucette Quotes & Sayings

Winning the love of a higher-status person is a widespread strategy for stimulating serotonin. Of course, we don't consciously equate love with status. But when a highstatus person of the right gender notices you, your brain lights up. Your neurochemistry screams "Go toward this. It is very good for your survival. " Even bonobos, the apes known for their sexual dynamism, compete vigorously for high-status partners — Anonymous

Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education. — Aldous Huxley

In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death. — Alfred Russel Wallace

Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ... and then cackles. — Henry Ward Beecher

My nose ring mixed with poor church attendance make for a sin cocktail. — Miranda Kenneally

I'll just let time happen. I don't have to articulate what may be or what may not be. I don't even do that to myself. — Cathy Freeman

Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Now that's so deep in history that there's no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist. — Noam Chomsky

The faith in Christ that saves us from our sins involves an internal transformation that has external implications. — David Platt