Time Quote by Christopher Ryan

““Were we really born in the best possible time and place? Or is ours a random moment in infinity--just another among uncountable moments, each with its compensating pleasures and disappointments?””

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“Marriage," "mating," and "love" are socially constructed phenomena that have little or no transferable meaning outside any given culture. The examples we've noted of…

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“What constitutes misuse of the universe? This question can be answered in one word: greed…. Greed constitutes the most grievous wrong. LAURENTI MAGESA, African…

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“human population growth mushroomed as quality of life plummeted. The shift to agriculture, wrote author Jared Diamond, is a “catastrophe from which we have…

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“As attentive readers may have noted, the standard narrative of heterosexual interaction boils down to prostitution: a woman exchanges her sexual services for access…

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“When James Larrick and his colleagues studied the still relatively isolated Waorani Indians of Ecuador, they found no evidence of hypertension, heart disease, or…

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“The sexually insatiable woman,” declared a terrified Donald Symons, “is to be found primarily, if not exclusively, in the ideology of feminism, the hopes…

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“[Man] has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights, the one ecstasy that stands first…

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“If I had had to choose my place of birth, I would have chosen a state in which everyone knew everyone else, so that…

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“Skeletal remains taken from various regions of the world dating to the transition from foraging to farming all tell the same story: increased famine,…

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“Still, the frequent absence of happiness is what keeps us pursuing it, and thus makes us productive.”10 This is a curious notion of productivity—at…

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“If you’re unhappy at the amount of sexual opportunity in your life, don’t blame the women. Instead, make sure they have equal access to…

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“A fire is never sated by any amount of logs, nor the ocean by rivers that flow into it; death cannot be sated by…

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