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- Genetically influenced behavior is not necessarily good and not necessarily unchangeable. Explanations of bad behavior that appeal to genes do not absolve a person any…
- People do not think in English or Chinese or Apache; they think in a language of thought. This language of thought probably looks a bit…
- When it comes to explaining human thought and behavior, the possibility that heredity plays any role at all still has the power to shock. To…
- Evolutionarily speaking, there is seldom any mystery in why we seek the goals we seek — why, for example, people would rather make love with…
- Look at almost any passage, and you'll find that a paragraph has five or six metaphors in it. It's not that the speaker is trying…
- Evolution is an indispensable component of any satisfying explanation of our psychology.
- In any dispute, each side thinks it's in the right and the other side is demons.
- All our behaviours are a result of neurophysiological activity in the brain. There is no reason to believe there is any magic going on.
- Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics.
- Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives each…
- Commerce is a noble profession, and Jews should get over any self-hatred they might harbor from contemplating the capitalist spirit of diaspora Judaism.
- Conventions are unstated agreements within a community to abide by a single way of doing things - not because there is any inherent advantage to…
- Obviously no language is innate. Take any kid from any race, bring them up in any culture and they will learn the language equally quickly.…
- The foundation of individual rights is the assumption that people have wants and needs and are authorities on what those wants and needs are. If…
- The more you think about and interact with other people, the more you realize that it is untenable to privilege your interests over theirs, at…
- The human moral sense can excuse any atrocity in the minds of those who commit it, and it furnishes them with motives for acts of…
- 20th-century totalitarian movements were no more defined by a rejection of Judeo-Christianity than they were defined by a rejection of astrology, alchemy, Confucianism, Scientology, or…
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- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
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- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
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- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- It can't be any simpler: the farewell is going to be on the Champs-Elysees. — Lance Armstrong