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Date: 1789

"Hope and fear are the two grand springs by which that curious machine, the human mind, is actuated; and to deprive Virtue of that support which she receives from their influence and operation, and to substitute in their room a sense of honour, or a love of moral beauty and order, is to betray th...

— Belsham, William (1752-1827)

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Date: 2006

"In this way something like a database is created that stores our preferences and dislikes."

— Klein, Stefan (b. 1965)

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Date: 2006

"When people looked for metaphors, they saw the mind as the driver of a car, or as a program running on a computer."

— Haidt, Jonathan

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Date: 2006

"Whichever end of that range you favor, language, reasoning, and conscious planning arrived in the most recent eye-blink of evolution. They are like new software, Rider version 1.0."

— Haidt, Jonathan

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Date: May 12, 2018

"It was like the same tapes were kind of, like, back in the brain."

— Yael [full name not given]

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.