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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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To represent a bad thing in its least offensive light is, doubtless, the most agreeable course for a writer of fiction to…
— Anne Bronte
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We cannot enter into alliance with neighbouring princes until we are acquainted with their designs. We are not fit to lead an…
— Sun Tzu
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Faerie is a perilous land, and in it are pitfalls for the unwary, and dungeons for the overbold.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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But the word "right" is one of the most deceptive of pitfalls; it is so easy to slip from a qualified meaning…
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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In a world where survival is always seen as a struggle, and in which some pitfalls always exist, if something brings into…
— Willard Gaylin
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One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these…
— John Green
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Young people, your parents, with their maturity of years and experience you have not had, can provide wisdom, knowledge, and blessings to…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Most of us who become experimental physicists do so for two reasons; we love the tools of physics because to us they…
— Luis Walter Alvarez
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