The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.
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Our ability to delude ourselves may be an important survival tool.
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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. -General Omar N. Bradley This morning I threw up at a board meeting. I was sure the cat was out of the bag, but no one seemed to think anything about it; apparently it’s quite common for people to throw up at board meetings.
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We speculated what it was like before we got language skills. When we humans had our first thought, most likely we didn’t know what to think. It’s hard to think without words ‘cause you haven’t got a clue as to what you’re thinking. So if you think we suffer from a lack of communication now, think what it must have been like then, when people lived in a ‘verbal void’ – made worse by the fact that there were no words such as ‘verbal void‘.
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They asked me once my thoughts about infinity, and I told ‘em with all I had to think about, infinity was not on my list of things to think about. It could be time on an ego-trip, for all I know. After all, when you’re pressed for time, infinity may as well not be there.
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Birth: | 26th February, 1935 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Director, Producer, Screenwriter |
Jane Wagner was born in Morristown, Tennessee, USA. She is an American screenwriter, director and producer. She is best known as Lily Tomlin's comedy writer, collaborator and wife. She directed several films include: Moment by Moment and Hearts And Quarks(short film). She has written several films include: J.T., Moment by Moment, The Incredible Shrinking Woman, Lily: Sold Out, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe(stage show, also producer), An Apology to Elephants(documentary). She has been nominated for Grammy Awards, with Tomlin, for the comic’s recorded albums and has won three Emmy Awards and a Writers Guild of America award, also with Tomlin, for the comic’s television specials.
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