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Giving men marriage tips is a little like offering Vikings a free booklet titled How Not to Pillage.
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Darwin was one of our finest specimens. He did superbly what human beings are designed to do: manipulate social information to personal…
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Think of it : zillions and zillions of organisms running around, each under the hypnotic spell of a single truth, all these…
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Actually, there is a sense in which polygynous marriage has not been the historical norm - even where polygyny is permitted, multiple…
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God knows greed won't vanish. Neither will hatred or chauvanism. Human nature is a stubborn thing. But it isn't beyond control. Even…
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Religion is a feature of cultural evolution that, among other things, addresses anxieties created by cultural evolution; it helps keep social change…
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Once you the forces that govern behavior,it's harder to blame the behaver
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Being a person's true friend means endorsing the untruths he holds dearest.
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Understanding the often unconscious nature of genetic control is the first step toward understanding that—in many realms, not just sex—we’re all puppets,…
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If war can indeed be turned into a relic, then the virtue of greed will recede further. From a given society's standpoint,…
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Corruption is knowing when something is not being done, knowing when the American people are being left unprotected and when you make…
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Next time you see a yardful of sprouting dandelions, note that they look remarkably like things we call "flowers." And later, when…
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In 2004, I wrote 'What We've Lost,' a book about the Bush administration. It sold only reasonably well, in part, I think,…
— Graydon Carter
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It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy; but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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There are infinite possibilities of error, and more cranks take up fashionable untruths than unfashionable truths.
— Bertrand Russell
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Where there are two people, there is untruth.
— Soren Kierkegaard
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By oft repeating an untruth, men come to believe it themselves.
— Thomas Jefferson
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The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.
— Harold Evans
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Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Experience convinces me that permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth & violence. Even if my belief is a fond…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Insistence on truth can come into play when one party practices untruth or injustice. Only then can love be tested. True friendship…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The time has come for America to hear the truth about this tragic war. In international conflicts, the truth is hard to…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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We have only one consciousness stream. When we associate with Truth, we ascend upwards, and when we associate with untruth we fall…
— Unknown Author
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