"Being a person's true friend means endorsing the……" — Robert Wright
"Being a person's true friend means endorsing the untruths he holds dearest."
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19 Quotes by Robert Wright
Robert Wright has 19 quotes on this site.
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Giving men marriage tips is a little like offering Vikings a free booklet titled How Not to Pillage.
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Darwin was one of our finest specimens. He did superbly what human beings are designed to do: manipulate social information…
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Think of it : zillions and zillions of organisms running around, each under the hypnotic spell of a single truth,…
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Actually, there is a sense in which polygynous marriage has not been the historical norm - even where polygyny is…
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God knows greed won't vanish. Neither will hatred or chauvanism. Human nature is a stubborn thing. But it isn't beyond…
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Religion is a feature of cultural evolution that, among other things, addresses anxieties created by cultural evolution; it helps keep…
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Once you the forces that govern behavior,it's harder to blame the behaver
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Understanding the often unconscious nature of genetic control is the first step toward understanding that—in many realms, not just sex—we’re…
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If war can indeed be turned into a relic, then the virtue of greed will recede further. From a given…
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Corruption is knowing when something is not being done, knowing when the American people are being left unprotected and when…
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Next time you see a yardful of sprouting dandelions, note that they look remarkably like things we call "flowers." And…
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Next time you see an unblemished expanse of grass, think about the chemicals that probably got dumped in your vicinity…
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More Dearest Quotes
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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.
— Oswald Chambers
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Anyone who works on a quilt, who devotes her time, energy, creativity, and passion to that art, learns to value…
— Jennifer Chiaverini
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I am proud, and more than a little excited, to be asked to work with Faber in an editorial capacity.…
— Jarvis Cocker
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With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined.
— Franklin Pierce
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A few years ago I lost one of my dearest friends. He died at age 53 - heart attack. David…
— Jim Rohn
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These are the things I prize And hold of dearest worth: Light of the sapphire skies, Peace of the silent…
— Henry Van Dyke
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The dearest events are summer-rain.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Growing up means letting go of the dearest megalomaniacal dreams of our childhood. Growing up means knowing they can't be…
— Judith Viorst
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Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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I consider it an indispensible duty to close this last solemn act of my official life by commending the interests…
— George Washington
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The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own.
— Richard Francis Burton
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What is at the heart of all national problems? It is that we have seen the hand of material interest…
— Woodrow Wilson
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