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• The real problem with natural selection is that it makes no intuitive sense. It is like quantum physics; we may intellectually grasp…
• A religion such as Judaism or Catholicism might survive even if it comes to reject a literal account of God creating man…
• Traditionally, psychology has been the study of two populations: university freshmen and white rats.
• Families survive the terrible twos because toddlers aren't strong enough to kill with their hands and aren't capable of using lethal weapons.
• Our best hope for the future [...] lies in an appreciation of the fact that, even if we don’t empathize with distant…
• And empathy is narrow; it connects us to particular individuals, real or imagined, but is insensitive to numerical differences and statistical data.
• If you like somebody, they look better to you. This is why spouses in happy marriages tend to think that their husband…
• We don't just respond to things as we see them, or feel them, or hear them. Rather, our response is conditioned on…

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