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I was very sheltered, very bookish and, basically, skittish about life. My parents were both older when I came along and they didn't do things like take vacations.
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Baboons are poster children for psychosocial stress, living in troops with bruising and shifting dominance hierarchies among males and high rates of male aggression.
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Being president does seem a lot more stressful than being vice president.
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Baboons have the exact physiology as humans do. They also get the same stress-related illnesses, such as ulcers and heart disease.
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Regardless of your sex, if you have elevated testosterone levels in your blood, you're more likely to think a face with a neutral expression is instead looking threatening.
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But I like schlocky violent movies, but I'm for strict gun control. But then there was a time I was at a laser tag place, and I had such a good time hiding in a corner shooting at people. In other words, I'm your basic confused human when it comes to violence.
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For moral judgment, I think the most interesting trends in neuroscience are the ways in which judgments vary as a function of how emotionally salient the situation is.
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Genes are not about inevitabilities; they're about potentials and vulnerabilities.
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Go get yourself stressed all the time and the common cold becomes more common.
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Not a whole lot of us are wrestling somebody for a canned food item in the supermarket or having an ax fight in the jungle clearing. Instead, we sit and think about taxes and the ozone layer.
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If a male primate is mean to a female primate, her whole family will come after him. We don't have that sort of accountability in industrial societies.
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Primates are really well designed to see who is not keeping up their end of the deal.
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IOS users tend to be ones that really care about being online all the time. They also tend to be willing to pay for that. You might say they are richer users, which is partially true.
- Robert Scoble
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Apple, at its best, isn't a technology leader.
- Robert Scoble
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Everyone is on Facebook. It is very rare that I can't find a startup. Out of the 72 Y Combinator startups, almost all of them were on Facebook.
- Robert Scoble
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It's amazing that about 10% of startups couldn't be found on Facebook because they had common names or names that weren't searchable.
- Robert Scoble
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It's amazing when I walk through an expo hall and can't figure out what a company does just by walking past its booth.
- Robert Scoble
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The more Zuckerberg knows about you, the more media he will be able to bring you.
- Robert Scoble
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Satellite communications connect television screens in Japan with television cameras in England, and the distance of half a world loses its meaning.
- Robert Kennedy
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The most significant civil rights problem is voting. Each citizen's right to vote is fundamental to all the other rights of citizenship and the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960 make it the responsibility of the Department of Justice to protect that right.
- Robert Kennedy
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Now I can go back to being ruthless again.
- Robert Kennedy
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I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about it I thought it would be me.
- Robert Kennedy
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I have told friends and supporters who are urging me to run that I would not oppose President Johnson under any foreseeable circumstances.
- Robert Kennedy
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Our generation was born during the turmoil following the First World War. That war marked the dividing line - at least for the Western World - between the comfortable security of the 19th century and the instability and flux of our own time.
- Robert Kennedy
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The right to vote is the easiest of all rights to grant.
- Robert Kennedy
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Yesterday, we sought telescopes good enough to see all the planets. Today, we seek vehicles good enough to reach them.
- Robert Kennedy
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The eradication of racial and religious prejudice in the United States - and in the rest of the world as well - is a long-term process.
- Robert Kennedy
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In the last analysis, our every right is only worth what our lawyer makes it worth.
- Robert Kennedy
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I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.
- Robert Kennedy
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It is one thing to open the schools to all children regardless of race. It is another to train the teachers, to build the classrooms, and to attempt to eliminate the effects of past educational deficiencies. It is still another to find ways to feed the incentive to learn and keep children in school.
- Robert Kennedy
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It is one thing to open job opportunities. It is another to train people to fill them, or to persuade American enterprise to seek Negro as well as white applicants.
- Robert Kennedy
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I am ashamed to report that my father, who is 73, has never been beaten by any of his four sons in golf. We have all become resigned to the fact that he has determined that he won't be beaten.
- Robert Kennedy
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We develop the kind of citizens we deserve. If a large number of our children grow up into frustration and poverty, we must expect to pay the price.
- Robert Kennedy
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The Gross National Product includes the destruction of the redwoods and the death of Lake Superior. It grows with the production of napalm and missiles and nuclear warheads... It includes... the broadcasting of television programs which glorify violence to sell goods to our children.
- Robert Kennedy
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Automation provides us with wondrous increases of production and information, but does it tell us what to do with the men the machines displace? Modern industry gives us the capacity for unparalleled wealth - but where is our capacity to make that wealth meaningful to the poor of every nation?
- Robert Kennedy
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Lawyers have their duties as citizens, but they also have special duties as lawyers. Their obligations go far deeper than earning a living as specialists in corporation or tax law. They have a continuing responsibility to uphold the fundamental principles of justice from which the law cannot depart.
- Robert Kennedy
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The fact that free men persist in the search for the truth is the essential difference between Communism and Democracy.
- Robert Kennedy
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President Kennedy has named two Negroes to District Judgeships and appointed Thurgood Marshall to the United States Court of Appeals. When I came to the Department of Justice, there were only ten Negroes employed as lawyers; not a single Negro served as a United States Attorney - or ever had in the history of the country. That has been changed.
- Robert Kennedy
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Nothing is more false than the notion that the triumph of Communism is inevitable or that the Communists are steadily pushing the free world into a corner.
- Robert Kennedy
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To the extent that laws are founded on morality and on logic, they can lead men's hearts and minds.
- Robert Kennedy
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The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.
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When historians consider the significance of the Berlin crises of the mid-20th century, I do not believe that they will record it as an incident in the encirclement of freedom. The true view, in my judgment, will be to see it rather as a major episode in the recession of communism.
- Robert Kennedy
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Within the United States, we have put great emphasis upon political freedoms. Because it has been our experience that these freedoms can lead to others.
- Robert Kennedy
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What is learned on the athletic field is not forgotten, nor are the lessons of character that are forged there ever lost. Consider the contributions in the field of public life, business, law, medicine, and the military of those who actively participated in athletics.
- Robert Kennedy
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Even as my father grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, signs told him: 'No Irish Need Apply.'
- Robert Kennedy
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The hardest problems of all in law enforcement are those involving a conflict of law and local customs. History has recorded many occasions when the moral sense of a nation produced judicial decisions, such as the 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which required difficult local adjustments.
- Robert Kennedy
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American books reflect our common heritage with many other nations and their influence upon our culture. The influences are endless, linking us with the rest of the world. Thus, they are good ambassadors for us.
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It certainly should not surprise us that a young person without any real stake in a legitimate occupation or career may get into trouble more easily. Such persons readily accept the idea that they have been unjustly deprived of money, status, and opportunity.
- Robert Kennedy
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When our forbears - yours and mine - came to America, they came because this country promised them something. It promised them an opportunity, nourished by education, not merely to grind for a bare living, but to strive for a good life.
- Robert Kennedy
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