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By changing the context in which two things are compared, you submerge certain features and force others to the surface.
Things are grouped together for a reason, but, once they are grouped, their grouping causes them to seem more like each other than they otherwise would. That is, the mere act of classification reinforces stereotypes. If you want to weaken some stereotype, eliminate the classification.
“Someone once said that education was knowing what to do when you don’t know,”
When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice, Amos liked to say. Once when you worry about it, and the second time when it happens.
people preferred to endure more total pain so long as the experience ended on a more pleasant note.
a pilot without an instrument rating who flew into clouds had an average life expectancy of 178 seconds.
what is a marriage if not an agreement to distort one’s perception of another, in relation to everyone else?
