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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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Though knowledge itself increasingly ignores boundaries between fields, professors are apt to organize their pedagogy around the methods and history of their…
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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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It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people then to dominate them, more…
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I kept pushing against the black, though, almost a reflex. I wasn't trying to lift it. I was just resisting. Not allowing…
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Caring is a reflex. Someone slips, your arm goes out. A car is in the ditch, you join others and push... You…
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I believe you can never change a habit, or create one, with a word or a piece of chalk. You can talk…
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To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdalaâ€â€”the home of the fight-or-flight reflex—“is as limiting as saying…
— Scott Stossel
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No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards…
— Thomas Carlyle
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The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.
— Sarah Bernhardt
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A bird maintains itself in the air by imperceptible balancing, when near to the mountains or lofty ocean crags; it does this…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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