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- When a scientist considers all high-tech mental machinery needed to arrange words into ordinary sentences, prescriptive rules are, at best, inconsequential little decorations. The very…
- An eye for beauty locks onto faces that show signs of health and fertility - just as one would predict if it had evolved to…
- Evolutionary psychologists seem to want to unmask our noblest motives as ultimately self-interested - to show that our love for children, compassion for the unfortunate…
- One can choose to obsess over prescriptive rules, but they have no more to do with human language than the criteria for judging cats at…
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- In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels. — Jane Austen
- Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are. — Alfred Austin
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