Theatre and books let people to step into the shoes of others, and with the printing press these stories spread widely.

antagonism can emerge from arbitrary divisions

A deeper dive into the data, however, revealed that the participants displayed more brain activity while watching the pain of fans who liked the same team they did. They showed less brain activity when watching fans of a rival team. Their brains simply responded more to their ingroup

minimum amount of information required to trigger an ingroup bia

Although many participants reported that they cared for all people equally, brain imaging revealed a different story: people care about some more than others, and their subconscious selectivity was based on nothing more than a one-word label.

Strikingly, atheists showed the same ingroup bias as religious participants, suggesting the bias is not so much about religion as it is about the degree of affiliation to a group. Labels alone can spur bias.

the more empathic a participant claimed to be, the more she was biased in favor of her ingroup.

Remarkably, even though participants knew they had been randomly assigned, their brains showed the same patterns of ingroup allegiance and outgroup disregard. “Us” versus “them” does not need to be predicated on deep meaning: even arbitrary labels rapidly create bias.

, understand our own biases

build a better model of others

learn and resist the tactics of dehumanisationlearn and resist the tactics of dehumanisation

, “blind” your biases

entangle group membership

We would betray our values and play into our enemies' hands if we were to treat Muslims differently than anyone else. In fact, to cave to popular sentiment would be to hand a victory to the terrorists, and we should not stand for that.

Fill your own well with love so that others may drink from it.

I think all fiction should be fair game for the Christian market, except porn, of course.

Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.

The point is that filmmaking is a collaborative effort it isnt about imposing your vision on other people. Its about the talking you know

If you don't work yourself up into a fever of greed and covetousness in an art museum, you're just not doing the job.

I'm eternally grateful to fate and the citizens of Russia that they've trusted me to be the head of the Russian government.

There's a lot more to me than just funny.

I urge the Bush Administration to rethink its priorities. We can't talk about community values without being prepared to invest in those very same communities.

The Church as a divine society possess an internal principle of life which is capable of assimilating the most diverse materials and imprinting her own image upon them.

The fact is inner-city black districts are not the same as suburban Republican districts. That's a fact. And people need to go and learn about the whole country.

Oftentimes when you see adaptations of books you like, you're let down. As an author, you assume that they are going to suck. A little bit of hope is dangerous.

I didn't finish college, which is really weird because they awarded me the Alumni of Distinction recently.

Intelligence entails a strong mind, but genius entails a heart of a lion in tune with a strong mind.

When I moved to Nashville, I didn't really let myself sonically explore, but things naturally got a little more poppy. And in L.A., even more so.

There's a lot of trust being built up. I think we have a lot of work ahead of us.

The main tenet of design thinking is empathy for the people you're trying to design for. Leadership is exactly the same thing - building empathy for the people that you're entrusted to help.

I love all music.

You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come.

To be a small town kid from Hialeah, Fla., pitching in Miami and representing Team U.S.A., that says it all. It's a kid's dream. Don't pinch me. I don't want to wake up.

People are People still gets played to death on '80s stations. It was our first big break in America. It's not exactly my favorite song.

I believe one doesn't have to shed clothes to look sexy!

As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.

Imperfection is perfection.