Mesmanic Quotes & Sayings

Of course our genes will make some capacities very much easier to learn than others, and of course our genes themselves are not learned. But the point remains that genes themselves are not cognitive capacities, and that anything worth calling a cognitive capacity will depend to some degree on learning and so not be innate. — David Papineau

We urge you to understand the Palestinian reality, and not to rush in and impose conditions and demands that ignore this reality and increase the suffering of the people. — Ismail Haniyeh

I'm not as klutzy as I used to be ... I've had visual therapy and all kinds of things to help, but I still wrap my purse around chair legs when I stand up to leave. I do ridiculous things on camera because I do them in my life all the time. — Shelley Long

Are you so simple as to assume that the Big Surrender banished the concept of human slavery from the earth? What is the principle of slavery? Only the literal buying and selling of human flesh on the block? That was only an outside symbol. Real slavery is couched in the desire and the efforts of any man or community to live and advance their interests at the expense of the lives and interests of others. All of the outward signs come out of that. — Zora Neale Hurston

It's a very good idea that we have a third term Labour government led by Tony Blair for a full term. — Peter Mandelson

The successful leader does not talk down to people. He lifts them up. — Richard M. Nixon

A physician who fails to enter the body of a patient with the lamp of knowledge and understanding can never treat diseases. He should first study all the factors, including environment, which influence a patient's disease, and then prescribe treatment. It is more important to prevent the occurrence of disease than to seek a cure — Charaka

Under the rose, since here are none but friends, To own the truth we have some private ends. — Jonathan Swift

I might have the whole world now, but it's not enough if I don't get to share it with her. — Beth Revis

The average person would have quit at the first failure. That's why there have been many average men and only one Edison. — Napoleon Hill