4 Quotes & Sayings By Morton Hunt

Morton Hunt was an American lawyer and author of more than 100 books, including the best-selling works, The Book of Lists and The Book of Lists—13th Edition. He was also the creator of the syndicated television program produced by his son, Jonathan Hunt, called The List Show. In addition to his work as a publisher, Hunt served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas from 1953 to 1955 Read more

After leaving office, he became a professor at Baylor University College of Law in Waco, Texas. He died in Waco on July 5, 2006.

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Historians are wont to name technological advances as the great milestones of culture, among them the development of the plow, the discovery of smelting and metalworking, the invention of the clock, printing press, steam power, electric engine, lightbulb, semiconductor, and computer. But possibly even more transforming than any of these was the recognition by Greek philosophers and their intellectual descendants that human beings could examine, comprehend, and eventually even guide or control their own thought process, emotions, and resulting behavior. With that realization we became something new and different on earth: the only animal that, by examining its own cerebration and behavior, could alter them. This, surely, was a giant step in evolution. Although we are physically little different from the people of three thousand years ago, we are culturally a different species. We are the psychologizing animal. Morton Hunt
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Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it. Morton Hunt
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Americans who make more of marrying for love than any other people also break up more of their marriages but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it. Morton Hunt