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Giving men marriage tips is a little like offering Vikings a free booklet titled How Not to Pillage.
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Darwin was one of our finest specimens. He did superbly what human beings are designed to do: manipulate social information to personal…
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Think of it : zillions and zillions of organisms running around, each under the hypnotic spell of a single truth, all these…
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Actually, there is a sense in which polygynous marriage has not been the historical norm - even where polygyny is permitted, multiple…
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God knows greed won't vanish. Neither will hatred or chauvanism. Human nature is a stubborn thing. But it isn't beyond control. Even…
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Religion is a feature of cultural evolution that, among other things, addresses anxieties created by cultural evolution; it helps keep social change…
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Once you the forces that govern behavior,it's harder to blame the behaver
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Being a person's true friend means endorsing the untruths he holds dearest.
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Understanding the often unconscious nature of genetic control is the first step toward understanding that—in many realms, not just sex—we’re all puppets,…
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If war can indeed be turned into a relic, then the virtue of greed will recede further. From a given society's standpoint,…
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Corruption is knowing when something is not being done, knowing when the American people are being left unprotected and when you make…
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Next time you see a yardful of sprouting dandelions, note that they look remarkably like things we call "flowers." And later, when…
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The reason we bitterly hate those who deceive us is because they think they are cleverer than we are.
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I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived next to each other in separate cages for…
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O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule…
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A Jew cannot be a true patriot. He is something different, like a bad insect. He must be kept apart, out of…
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You have lost all delight in life. Ahead is a large array of blind alleys. You are half-deliberately, half-desperately cutting off your…
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