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I think that communism was a major force for violence for more than 100 years, because it was built into its ideology - that progress…

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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.…
In the speech sound wave, one word runs into the next seamlessly; there are no little silences between spoken words the way…
If people are innately saddled with certain sins and flaws, like selfishness, prejudice, sort-sightedness, and self-deception, then political reform would seem to…
Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture…
All of the violence that doesn't occur doesn't get reported on the news.
Though knowledge itself increasingly ignores boundaries between fields, professors are apt to organize their pedagogy around the methods and history of their…
As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender.
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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Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property. — Lawrence Lessig
The Church welcomes technological progress and receives it with love, for it is an indubitable fact that technological progress comes from God… — Pope Pius XII
But the broader lesson of the first Industrial Revolution is more like the Indy 500 than John Henry: economic progress comes from… — Erik Brynjolfsson
All invention and progress comes from finding a link between two ideas that have never met. — Theodore Zeldin
Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience. — Elbert Hubbard
All progress comes from the creative minority. — George Gilder
Progress comes from caring more about what needs to be done than about who gets the credit — Dorothy Height
One can give or withhold in a manner far more effective, sophisticated, useful, which is quite invisible to people who think that… — Idries Shah

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