Favorite Lines

From OBTnotes

I love when papers have funny lines (intentionally or not), so why not collect them

In no particular order:

• "One may say both that 'Noam Chomsky is very smart' and 'Lassie is very smart,' but different messages are communicated" from Crandall, C. S., & Eshleman, A. (2003)
• "It is humbling to consider what lower animals would think of humans if their experiments demonstrated our vulnerability to the sunk cost effect and our apparently rather casual observances of the normative rules of choice. At least some comfort can be taken from the fact that they would be able neither to articulate nor to overgeneralize their findings" from Arkes and Ayton, 1999
• "In addition, some attributes that are unique to us may not be fundamental or typical (e.g. politeness may be unique to our species but not particularly common within it)." from Haslam, N., Loughnan, S., Kashima, Y., & Bain, P. (2008)