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“The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation - a force for construction and destruction.”

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Love and work are to people what water and sunshine are to plants.

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Congress is full of good, decent, smart people who have devoted their lives to public service.

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I got interested in the American culture war back in 2004, and it's one of the only growth stocks I've ever invested in.

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I think of myself as a social scientist. In order to get hired and to get promoted, we're forced to declare a disciplinary and…

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“We should not expect individuals to produce good, open-minded, truth-seeking reasoning, particularly when self-interest or reputational concerns are in play. But if you put…

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It only takes twenty generations of selective breeding to create large differences or appearance and behavior in other mammals.

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“Our minds have the potential to become righteous about many different concerns, and only a few of these concerns are activated during childhood. Other”

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People who devote their lives to studying something often come to believe that the object of their fascination is the key to understanding everything.

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The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion the power…

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“But the secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every words that serves no function, every long word…

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Sometimes I think the resurrection of the body, unless much improved in construction, a mistake!

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“Create with the heart; build with the mind.”

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Seoul will strictly limit the total greenhouse gas emissions from buildings and expand the construction of zero-energy buildings.

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“Over 275,000 people had signed to end the construction of the TMT telescope at the Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO) by week 20 of the protest.”

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Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts ; mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction of concepts.

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