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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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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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Knowing there is a world that will outlive you, there are people whose well-being depends on how you live your life, affects…
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Babies are born with the instinct to speak, the way spiders are born with the instinct to spin webs. You don't need…
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The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside…
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There's a real danger in doing a sequel. There are some benefits, but that all hinges on how well you execute. Quite…
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As a teenager, I had to struggle alone to learn about myself and what it meant to be gay. Now for [48]…
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Death is only an old door Set in a garden wall; On quiet hinges it gives, at dusk When the thrushes call.…
— Nancy Byrd Turner
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There's not a woman in the book, the plot hinges on unkindness to animals, and the black characters mostly drown by Chapter…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers with scars.
— Gretel Ehrlich
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If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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So much of an artist's career hinges on the sense that we are going somewhere, that we are not just trapped by…
— Julia Cameron
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