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It's the old idea that the process of evolution is some push in the direction of greater complexity--in particular greater intellectual complexity.…
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Natural selection is not the only process that changes organisms over time. But is the only process that seemingly designs organisms over…
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In a high tech world the cure for the tragic shortcomings and perilous fallacies of human intuition is education, but education in…
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In the speech sound wave, one word runs into the next seamlessly; there are no little silences between spoken words the way…
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If people are innately saddled with certain sins and flaws, like selfishness, prejudice, sort-sightedness, and self-deception, then political reform would seem to…
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Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture…
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All of the violence that doesn't occur doesn't get reported on the news.
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Most wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conquest, revenge, and ideology.
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When student-actors see people and the way they behave when together, see the color of the sky, hear the sounds in the…
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You want a valve that doesn't leak and you try everything possible to develop one. But the real world provides you with…
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The world provides no cheerleaders on the pathway to godliness.
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The number of substitutes for fine and clean thinking the world provides positively gnaws at one's vitals.
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Every time I get something under control in my own life, the world provides more material.
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A life is such a strange object, at one moment translucent, at another utterly opaque, an object I make with my own…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Morality, then, is not a set of arbitrary regulations dictated by a vengeful deity and written down in a book; nor is…
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To find a career to which you are adapted by nature, and then to work hard at it, is about as near…
— Mark Sullivan
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