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- What a dull universe it would be if everything in it conformed to our expectations, if it held nothing to surprise or baffle us or…
- You know that when Irving puts the dog in the car, it is no longer in the yard. When Edna goes to church, her head…
- The task of evolutionary psychology is not to weigh in on human nature, a task better left to others. It is to add the satisfying…
- One of the perks of being a psychologist is access to tools that allow you to carry out the injunction to know thyself.
- Gossip is certainly one of the things that language is useful for, because it's always handy to know who needs a favor, who can offer…
- Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, 'No,' because it's an oblate spheroid. They suffer from 'the…
- Astrology had an important role in the ancient world. You can't understand many things unless you know something about astrology - the plays of Shakespeare…
- I think students should know something about religion as a historical phenomenon, in the same way that they should know something about socialism and humanism…
- People know there is a difference between what you do and what you accept. There is a difference between me knowing that people swear, me…
- Terrorist bombings, like rampage shootings, are events that maximize the amount of publicity per amount of damage. That's why people do them, because they know…
- Words let us say the things we want to say and also things we would be better off not having said. They let us know…
- Nature is a hanging judge," goes an old saying. Many tragedies come from our physical and cognitive makeup. Our bodies are extraordinarily improbable arrangements of…
- The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a knife, altered by chemicals, started or stopped by electricity, and extinguished by a…
- We know about every massacre that has taken place close to the present, but the ones in the distant past are like trees falling in…
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