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It's the old idea that the process of evolution is some push in the direction of greater complexity--in particular greater intellectual complexity.…
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In the speech sound wave, one word runs into the next seamlessly; there are no little silences between spoken words the way…
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If people are innately saddled with certain sins and flaws, like selfishness, prejudice, sort-sightedness, and self-deception, then political reform would seem to…
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Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture…
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All of the violence that doesn't occur doesn't get reported on the news.
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Though knowledge itself increasingly ignores boundaries between fields, professors are apt to organize their pedagogy around the methods and history of their…
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Some people think that evolutionary psychology claims to have discovered that human nature is selfish and wicked. But they are flattering the…
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As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender.
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Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth commit, doth…
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Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner.
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A man who has been born into the house of a warrior and yet places no loyalty in his heart and thinks…
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All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them…
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He that is thy friend indeed, He will help thee in thy need: If thou sorrow, he will weep; If thou wake,…
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Like every girl, I only need to look up and a little to the right of me to see the hysteria that…
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[The American President] has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues.… The people can never understand why the President…
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