"God knows greed won't vanish. Neither will hatred……" — Robert Wright
"God knows greed won't vanish. Neither will hatred or chauvanism. Human nature is a stubborn thing. But it isn't beyond control. Even if our core impulses can;t be banished, they can be tempered and redirected."
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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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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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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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More Banished Quotes
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Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
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What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today,…
— David Cameron
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Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different…
— Susan B. Anthony
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The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations.
— Anthony Gregory
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We have not yet reached the goal but.. we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of…
— Herbert Hoover
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Contemporary philosophers, even the rationalistic minded ones, have on the whole agreed that no one has intelligibly banished the mystery…
— William James
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Among true and real friends, all is common; and were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The inconsistency of the institution of domestic slavery with the principles of the Declaration of Independence was seen and lamented…
— John Quincy Adams
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If even one new drug of the stature of penicillin or digitalis has been unjustifiably banished to a company's back…
— Unknown Author
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You ask me whether I am in good spirits. How could I not be so? As long as Faith gives…
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