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“When studied in great depth, mythology is one of the darkest subjects there is.”
Source: Testament of the Hollow
“When studies using mental ability test scores from children are considered, the heritability of mental ability is typically found to be about .40, and the effect of the common or shared environment is found to be almost as strong, about .35. In contrast, when studies using mental ability test scores from adults (or older adolescents) are considered, estimates of the heritability of mental ability are much higher, typically about .65, whereas estimates of common or shared environment effects are much lower, probably under .20 (see review by Haworth et al., 2010). These findings indicate that differences among children in their levels of mental ability are attributable almost as much to their common environment—that is, to features of their family or household circumstances—as to their genetic inheritances. However, the findings also suggest that as children grow up, the differences among them in mental ability become less strongly related to the features of their common environments, and more strongly related to their genetic inheritances. In other words, the effect on one's mental ability of the family or household in which one is reared tends to become less important as one grows up, so that by adulthood one's level of mental ability is heavily dependent on one's genetic characteristics. It is as if one's level of mental ability—relative to that of other persons of the same age—can be raised (or lowered) during childhood by a particularly good (or poor) home environment, but then gradually returns to the level that one's genes tend to produce.”
Source: Individual Differences and Personality
“When studies using mental ability test scores from children are considered, the heritability of mental ability is typically found to be about .40, and the effect of the common or shared environment is found to be almost as strong, about .35. In contrast, when studies using mental ability test scores from adults (or older adolescents) are considered, estimates of the heritability of mental ability are much higher, typically about .65, whereas estimates of common or shared environment effects are much lower, probably under .20 (see review by Haworth et al., 2010). These findings indicate that differences among children in their levels of mental ability are attributable almost as much to their common environment—that is, to features of their family or household circumstances—as to their genetic inheritances. However, the findings also suggest that as children grow up, the differences among them in mental ability become less strongly related to the features of their common environments, and more strongly related to their genetic inheritances. In other words, the effect on one's mental ability of the family or household in which one is reared tends to become less important as one grows up, so that by adulthood one's level of mental ability is heavily dependent on one's genetic characteristics. It is as if one's level of mental ability—relative to that of other persons of the same age—can be raised (or lowered) during childhood by a particularly good (or poor) home environment, but then gradually returns to the level that one's genes tend to produce.
The aforementioned findings are based mainly on samples of participants who belong to the broad middle class of modern Western countries. There is some evidence, though, that the heritability of IQ tends to be somewhat lower (at least until young adulthood, and perhaps beyond) when studies are conducted using participants of less enriched environments, such as those in economically underdeveloped countries or in the lowest socioeconomic classes of some Western countries (see review by Nisbett et al., 2012). One recent study (Tucker-Drob & Bates, 2016) found that in the United States, additive genetic influences had a weaker influence on IQ among persons of low socioeconomic status than among persons of high socioeconomic status. (Interestingly, Tucker-Drob and Bates did not find this effect in western European countries or in Australia, where socioeconomic status differences tend to be smaller.) The above findings suggest that whenever the heritability of IQ is discussed, it is important to consider the ages of the persons being examined as well as their socioeconomic status and their country.”
Source: Individual Differences and Personality
“When studio art started being seen as important, I joined Colab, and then I became very involved.”
“When stuff gets hard, and you're feeling real down about everything or in a cark space, a song can bring you out of it.”
“When stuff is coming to an end, people freak out and they act crazy.”
“When stumbling blocks can become stepping stones, then these stones that the builders reject can equally become chief corner stones!”
“When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.”
“When stupidity reaches its highest level, we act rubbish knowingly”
Source: Equating the Equations of Insanity: A Journey from Grief to Victory
“When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel'.”
“When subject matter is forced to fit into preconceived patterns, there can be no freshness of vision. Following rules of composition can only lead to a tedious repetition of pictorial cliches.”
Source: Edward Weston on photography
“When success and incompetence meet, disaster is not far away.”
“When success comes in the door, it seems, love often goes out the window.”
“When success comes knocking at your door, He is God. When blessings overflow, He is still God. No matter how much He blesses us, He remains God. He deserves our praise, even after we make it in life.”
Source: Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration
“When success comes too fast, it sweeps you off your feet. By the time you get your balance, you may find you're standing on someone else's path.”
“When success comes, people can try to trick you or take advantage of you.”
“When success finds you, it's because you were looking for it.”
“When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a new life.”
“When success is uniform, the celebration becomes universal. Of which use is it to you to rejoice at the time your friend cries?”
“When success is your only option, positivity has to be your only choice.”
“When success turns a man's head he faces failure”
“When such as I cast out remorse; So great a sweetness flows into the breast; We must laugh and we must sing, We are blest by everything, Everything we look upon is blessed.”
Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
“When such men, who are beyond hope and fear, begin in their dim minds to see the source their woes, it may be an evil time for those who have wronged them. The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.”
Source: Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)
“When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic, as they were when President Kennedy was killed.”
“When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“When suffering constricts the heart, awe stretches it back out, making us more compassionate, more loving, more present.”
Source: See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love
“When suffering from a relationship breakup, remember that there are eight billion people in the world. If someone doesn’t want you, there are other people who will.”
Source: Geboor: Spiritual Fiction
“When suffering from a relationship breakup, tell yourself that this, too, will pass. It will!”
Source: Geboor: Spiritual Fiction
“When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.”
“When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.”
“When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves; and all the efforts of courage appear chimerical to dastardly minds ... Nevertheless, how many instances are there, well attested, of men, in every other respect perfectly discreet, who, without remorse, rage, or despair, have quitted life for no other reason than because it was a burden to them, and have died with more composure than they lived?”
Source: ESSAYS ON SUICIDE AND THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL
“When summer gathers up her robes of glory, and like a dream of beauty glides away.”
Source: Poems
“When summer is over, winter becomes sad too, because opposites often admire each other secretly!”
“When Summer lies upon the world, and in a noon of gold, Beneath the roof of sleeping leaves the dreams of trees unfold; When woodland halls are green and cool, and wind is in the West, Come back to me! Come back to me, and say my land is best!”
Source: The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings
“When summer opens, I see how fast it matures, and fear it will be short; but after the heats of July and August, I am reconciled, like one who has had his swing, to the cool of autumn.”
Source: Emerson in His Journals
“When summoned hence to thine eternal sleep, Oh, may'st thou smile while all around thee weep.”
“When Sun rises Up and you get another beautiful day ! Make sure you live it in a beautiful way.”
“When sun shines, it not only brightens our day; it enlightens us, our soul, cleansing it of the gloominess that the night's darkness had brought in.”
“When Sunday loses its fundamental meaning and becomes subordinate to a secular concept of weekend dominated by such things as entertainment and sport, people stay locked within a horizon so narrow that they can no longer see the heavens.”
“When sunlight falls on a crystal, lights of all colors of the rainbow appear; yet they have no substance that you can grasp. Likewise, all thoughts in their infinite variety are utterly without substance.”
“When sunsets steal the heart, that is the time for poetry to flow. That is the time when verses fall on the blank pages.”
“When sunsets steal the heart, that is when poetry pushes open. That is when verses fall on the blank pages.”
“When Super Bowl time comes around, I get jealous.”
“When superficially considered, the union of a creature with the creation would seem of great beauty. Such is the perception in what regards to a creature intimately united with its nature, covered by a veil perfectly adapted to such nature and that can be explained by this same nature. However, if we investigate this issue more carefully, we see that this beauty is only apparent and, in reality, such union reveals a prison. Because the spirit that gives life to this nature and with which is identified, the same that operates this field of reality and its creatures, represents a perfectly elaborated disunion in a carefully elaborated world of contradictions. In this universe, everything leads towards individualization. And the individual, to conquer his goals, has to adapt himself to the laws that govern his time and space; laws based on loneliness, suffering, and a struggle between life and death. These laws, expression of the vital spirit of this nature, lead to a great curse and an unexplainable suffering. And yet, these are laws to which the vast masses, with all their theories and behaviors towards self-preservation, accepts, while only a very small percentage of humanity desperately searches for an integration, unification with God, order, peace, balance, and harmony in this big house. The true integration consists in existentially vanishing from this field, through the union with another living spirit and the development of another existence that can adapt to this other living spirit. Therefore, we, that wish to travel along this path, must start by saying goodbye to this big house in this world, and move towards the paths of transformation and rebirth. Nonetheless, the natural state in which we are born, cannot allow a rebirth. In fact, it will oppose it and try to stop us, to preserve itself. That is why, when we wish to abandon this nature, this same nature will fight us, through its creatures and creations. This becomes more obvious when evident that we can’t be stopped through electromagnetic forces.”
“When superior people hear of the Way, they carry it out with diligence. When middling people hear of the Way, it sometimes seems to be there, sometimes not. When lesser people hear of the Way, they ridicule it greatly. If they didn't laugh at it, it wouldn't be the Way.”
“When superiors are fond of showing their humanity, inferiors try to outstrip one another in their practice of it.”
Source: Li Chi: Book of Rites: An Encyclopedia of Ancient Ceremonial Usages, Religious Creeds, and Social Institutions
“When Superman came out it galvanized the entire industry. It's just part of the American scene.”
“When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.”
Source: Selected Writings
“When superstitious Bronze Age primitives invented God, they gave him every single human character flaw they had, because they simply projected their own uneducated thoughts onto their imaginary God.”
Source: Atheism Memes: 40 Reasons Why I'm An Atheist
“When supply can't keep up with demand or demand can't keep up with supply, it's indicative of waste in the form of misallocated capital.”