Exaltations In Astrology Quotes & Sayings

People seemed to have two different selves - an experiencing self who endures every moment equally and a remembering self who gives almost all the weight of judgment afterward to two single points in time, the worst moment and the last one. The remembering self seems to stick to the Peak-End rule even when the ending is an anomaly. Just a few minutes without pain at the end of their medical procedure dramatically reduced patients' overall pain ratings even after they'd experienced more than half an hour of high level of pain. "That wasn't so terrible," they'd reported afterward. A bad ending skewed the pain scores upward just as dramatically. — Atul Gawande

One of the things that sparked my interest in this is the case of Emmanuel Constant, who started a militia called FRAPH that was backed by the CIA. FRAPH killed thousands of Haitians in the early 1990s. Now while Constant is living comfortably in Queens, other Haitians are being deported. I wanted to see how those who have been bruised by people like that deal with coming face to face with their torturers. — Edwidge Danticat

I agree with Abhijit Naskar that the path of tolerance is the only way - but it must be accompanied by continued pressure to break down barriers to access to information, so that our tolerance isn't exploited to further the ends of totalitarian religious groups. — Daniel C. Dennett

My wife and I have five children. And the reason why we have five children is because we do notwantsix. — Bill Cosby

The extreme self-sacrifice characteristic of group-selected species such as ants and bees can often be found among soldiers. — Jonathan Haidt

It may not be as dramatic or funny to make a movie about a woman who loves both her job and her family, but that would be a better reflection of reality. We need more portrayals of women as competent professionals and happy mothers - — Sheryl Sandberg

Set yourself earnestly to discover what you are made to do, and then give yourself passionately to the doing of it. — Martin Luther King Jr.

I never wanted to or expected to make a film outside of New York. New York became very, very expensive. The same $18 million spent in Barcelona or Rome goes much further there. — Woody Allen

I knew what he felt. The huge buoyant air sack of love that filled his body had just exploded and the collapse was devastating. — Katherine Dunn

It seems very strange that one must turn back, and be transported to the very beginnings of history, in order to arrive at an understanding of humanity as it is at present. — Emile Durkheim

I believe the record I was allowed to help establish by the side of the president was important. — Rahm Emanuel

Man is a solitary animal condemned to live in herds. — Peter G. Roe