Gore tells us that the astrologers of ancient Babylon used a double clock – one for measuring the timescale of human affairs and another for tracking the celestial movements they believed shaped earthly events.
What we voters need to know — and it is hardly an invasion of privacy — is on what basis did the candidate choose to believe (did he choose freely and thoughtfully or just follow what his parents chose for him); and how does what he believes shape the way he makes decisions?
Memory storage is also covered in Inside Out, and teaches kids about short term and long term memories, and what they call "core memories" which cognitive behavioral therapists would believe shape your "schemas," or ways that you view the world.
The things we believe shape people's ability to repay their loans - what type of school they attend, what academic program they enroll in, whether they complete or not, what career they want to pursue - are all individual choices.
Returning to and rephrasing the question that I started with, can the new social technologies that we have access to significantly change the three factors that we believe shape the patterns of our social interactions?
"Everything has to do with American movies," he said, explaining the Kreuzberg world that, he believes, shaped him and his generation, the second, of Turkish-Germans.
As I've written already, this list is a personal inventory of some core texts, the books that I believe shaped our imagination and "made us who we are".
At an Ethiopian restaurant, Calvino, fielding a question about his WW2 experiences, made a modest reply that left out the youthful drama that I believe shaped the course of his writing.
According to a poll released last week by Public Policy Polling, 4percentt of Americans quotes are essential here—"believe shape-shifting reptilian people control our world by taking on human form and gaining power".
In 1913, the innovations of the Armory Show in New York and Diaghilev's production of "The Rite of Spring" had a seismic impact because audiences believed the shape of the culture determined the shape of their souls.
