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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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I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Unfortunately, the boards of art institutions tend to be populated with well-meaning supporters of the arts who often lack any business background…
— Eli Broad
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There's an importance of keeping an open mind. The brain is programmed to protect us, and that can mean imposing limits on…
— Chrissie Wellington
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Everything is deception: seeking the minimum of illusion, keeping within the ordinary limitations, seeking the maximum. In the first case one cheats…
— Franz Kafka
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The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.
— Prince Charles
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It seems to me, and I am personally convinced, that the Church must never speak from a position of strength. [These are…
— Anthony of Sourozh
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The gas-cylinders had by this time been put into position on the front line. A special order came round imposing severe penalties…
— Robert Graves
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Writing is the act of saying "I," of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying "listen to me, see it my way,…
— Joan Didion
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