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- Reason is non-negotiable. Try to argue against it, or to exclude it from some realm of knowledge, and you've already lost the argument, because you're…
- When people talk, they lay lines on each other, do a lot of role playing, sidestep, shilly-shally and engage in all manner of vagueness and…
- Personality and socialization aren't the same thing.
- We can make fun of hockey fans, but someone who enjoys Homer is indulging the same kind of vicarious bloodlust.
- Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply…
- Conventions are unstated agreements within a community to abide by a single way of doing things - not because there is any inherent advantage to…
- Economic libertarians and Christian evangelicals, united by their common enemy, are strange bedfellows in today's Republican party, just as the two Georges - the archconservative…
- 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…
- Solving a problem in a hundred years is, practically speaking, the same as not solving it at all.
- We are all members of the same flawed species. Putting our moral vision into practice means imposing our will on others. The human lust for…
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