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- Sex and excretion are reminders that anyone's claim to round-the-clock dignity is tenuous. The so-called rational animal has a desperate drive to pair up and…
- Feminism as a movement for political and social equity is important, but feminism as an academic clique committed to eccentric doctrines about human nature is…
- For example, parents who talk a lot to their children have kids with better language skills, parents who spank have children who grow up to…
- As long as your ideology identifies the main source of the world's ills as a definable group, it opens the world up to genocide.
- I think the reason that swearing is both so offensive and so attractive is that it is a way to push people's emotional buttons, and…
- If you aren't just brought up in your tribe but interact with other people either directly or vicariously, through journalism and literature, you see what…
- No one knows what the nongenetic causes of individuality are. Perhaps people are shaped by modifications of genes that take place after conception, or by…
- Obviously no language is innate. Take any kid from any race, bring them up in any culture and they will learn the language equally quickly.…
- The European wars of religion were more deadly than the First World War, proportionally speaking, and in the range of the Second World War in…
- Some people think that evolutionary psychology claims to have discovered that human nature is selfish and wicked. But they are flattering the researchers and anyone…
- Dear White Fella When I am born I’m black When I grow up I’m black When I am sick I’m black When I go out…
- Capitalism saved the world, and there is even a heretical theory now, moving up from the level of individuals to countries: countries that trade more…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Beautician: the official occupation of the 'I wear too much make-up fat girl'. — Nikhil Saluja
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed… — Timothy Garton Ash
- Do you know how much you mean to me? Do you know that you are the first thing I think of when… — Superman
- Successful people don't relax on a chair. They feel relaxed with their work. They sleep with their dreams and wake up with… — Ritu Ghatourey
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold