Hyperpalatable Quotes & Sayings

Generosity involved in proactively forgiving other people. This form of generosity, and the positive feelings it evokes in generous forgivers, have been shown by studies to reduce stress, tension, and sadness, and to lead to lower heart rates, lower skin conduction levels, and lower blood pressure. By contrast, those who ungenerously hold grudges are more angry, feel less in control of their lives, and, partly as a result, exhibit symptoms of unhealthy physical conditions. — Christian Smith

I don't like to hear myself sing. So to get comfortable [hearing myself sing], I sang in another accent. — Lupe Fiasco

The media have become masters at packaging stimuli in ways that our brains find irresistible, just as food engineers have become expert in creating "hyperpalatable" foods by manipulating levels of sugar, fat, and salt.11 Distractibility might be regarded as the mental equivalent of obesity. — Matthew B. Crawford

Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil. — Maximilien Robespierre

I do not expect old heads on young shoulders. — C.S. Lewis

I think my mother was very spiritual. — John McGahern

Road trip?"
"I'm going to dig up some dead relatives," she went on, "and ask them where the family money is. — Cinda Williams Chima

The wisest among us is a fool in some things. — Samuel Richardson

It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one! — Ann Radcliffe

One thing that distinguishes human beings from other animals is that we are evaluative creatures. We can take a critical stance toward our own activities, and aspire to direct ourselves toward objects and projects that we judge to be more worthy than others that may be more immediately gratifying. Animals are guided by appetites that are fixed, and so are we, but we can also form a second-order desire, "a desire for a desire," when we entertain some picture of the sort of person we would like to be - a person who is better not because she has more self-control, but because she is moved by worthier desires. Acquiring the tastes of a serious person is what we call education. Does it have a future? The advent of engineered, hyperpalatable mental stimuli compels us to ask the question. — Matthew B. Crawford