"Darwin was one of our finest specimens. He……" — Robert Wright
"Darwin was one of our finest specimens. He did superbly what human beings are designed to do: manipulate social information to personal advantage. The information in question was the prevailing account of how human beings, and all organisms, came to exist; Darwin reshaped it in a way that radically raised his social status. When he died in 1882, his greatness was acclaimed in newspapers around the world, and he was buried in Westminster Abbey, not far from the body of Isaac Newton. Alpha-male territory."
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19 Quotes by Robert Wright
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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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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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Being a person's true friend means endorsing the untruths he holds dearest.
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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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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
— Jane Austen
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No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can…
— Jane Austen
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In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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We worked the medley on side two of "Abbey Road" out carefully in advance. All of those mini songs were…
— George Harrison
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In Downton Abbey, foreplay is basically hanging your clothes up properly
— Allen Leech
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I love Downton Abbey. It's just great. My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth,…
— Jack Whitehall
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I find that the old Roman baths of this quarter, were found covered by an old burying ground, belonging to…
— Tobias Smollett
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Between the action sequences, the pleasure lies in observing impeccably dressed Brits exchanging barbed witticisms - making it, basically, Downton…
— Karina Longworth
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I remember wearing overcoats, hiding in the bushes outside of Abbey Road Studios, waiting for the traffic to clear. As…
— Jack Irons
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Commemorative stone in the floor of the Chapel of St. George in Westminster Abbey, London, dedicated in 1947: TO THE…
— Robert Baden-Powell
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As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great…
— Karl Philipp Moritz
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On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster…
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