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  • We're all animals, that we all respond to the same stimuli. If you want to motivate somebody not to have premarital sex, or motivate black bears not to go diving into dumpsters, first you have to think about why they do it. Telling them to stop isn't going to help. There has to be some incentive for them to alter their behavior.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Adam Carolla Quotes , Sex Quotes , Thinking Quotes
  • This is the manner of noble souls: they do not want to have anything for nothing; least of all, life. Whoever is of the mob wants to live for nothing; we others, however, to whom life gave itself, we always think about what we might best give in return... One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Life Quotes , Thinking Quotes
  • I think China is laughing about the results of the presidential elections. China, Russia, they all laugh about it. They see how dramatic U.S. has to be put this kind of shame on its own - cannot handle the situation. Or show such a difficulty with this liberal ideas. Men or women created equal. And to defend those very essential ideas.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , Men Quotes , Thinking Quotes
  • We have to steer our true life’s course. Whatever your calling is in life! The whole purpose of being here is to figure out what that is as soon as possible, so you go about the business of being on track, of not being owned by what your mother said, what society said, whatever people think a woman is supposed to be when you can exceed other people’s expectations and be defined by your own!
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oprah Winfrey Quotes , Mother Quotes , Thinking Quotes
  • The near side of a galaxy is tens of thousands of light-years closer to us than the far side; thus we see the front as it was tens of thousands of years before the back. But typical events in galactic dynamics occupy tens of millions of years, so the error in thinking of an image of a galaxy as frozen in one moment of time is small.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Errors Quotes
  • Who ARE You?" This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, I--I hardly know, sir, just at present-- at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Morning Quotes , Thinking Quotes
  • I couldn't think. The basics of my life seemed altered and thrown into question. After all, our families--our ancestors--are our identities. Biology is destiny. I'm not who you think I am, I had said to T.J. the last time I'd seen him. Maybe I wasn't who I'd thought I was either.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Aimee Friedman Quotes , Destiny Quotes , Thinking Quotes