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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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I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.
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In Tharoor's hands [the story of modern India] is transformed into Mahabharata magic.... Endlessly inventive, irreverent, wise, ingenious,... it takes on at…
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In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.
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God is not a static thing...but a dynamic, pulsating activity, a life, almost a kind of drama. Almost, if you will not…
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My friend and I sang an a cappella rendition of Extreme's 'More Than Words' at one of our football pep rallies in…
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I hope it will not be irreverent in me to say, that if it be probable that God would reveal his will…
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To be an effective criminal defense counsel, an attorney must be prepared to be demanding, outrageous, irreverent, blasphemous, a rogue, a renegade,…
— Clarence Darrow
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