Blame Quote by Frans de Waal

“We would much rather blame nature for what we don't like in ourselves than credit it for what we do like.”

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Dogmatists have one advantage: they are poor listeners.

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If both parties have a stake in the other, the chances of them killing each other are going to be reduced.

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Science is not inherently good.

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“on August 16, 1996, when an eight-year-old female gorilla named Binti Jua helped a three-year-old boy who had fallen eighteen feet into the primate exhibit at Chicago’s Brookfield Zoo. Reacting immediately, Binti scooped up the boy and carried him to safety. She sat down on a log in a stream, cradling the boy in her lap, giving him a few…

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Perhaps it's just me, but I am wary of any persons whose belief system is the only thing standing between them and repulsive behavior.

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Personally, I think it is possible to build a society that is moral on a nonreligious basis, but the jury is still out on…

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Armies are a purely human invention. Most soldiers who go to war nowadays don't even do it because they're inherently aggressive.

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