"...human beings are a species splendid in their……" — Robert Wright
"...human beings are a species splendid in their array of moral equipment, tragic in their propensity to misuse it, and pathetic in their ignorance of the misuse."
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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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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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More Array Quotes
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To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Flipping the dial through available radio stations there will blare out to any listener an array of broadcasts, 24/7, propagating…
— Tony Campolo
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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
— Larry Wall
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People have accepted the media's idea of what feminism is, but that doesn't mean that it's right or true or…
— Judy Chicago
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Now intelligence seemed quantifiable. You could measure someone's actual or potential height, and now, it seemed, you could also measure…
— Howard Gardner
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Now when you cut a forest, an ancient forest in particular, you are not just removing a lot of big…
— E. O. Wilson
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Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.
— Stan Kelly-Bootle
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If asked how to cope with a great host of the enemy in orderly array and on the point of…
— Sun Tzu
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Contemporary man is blind to the fact that, with all his rationality and efficiency, he is possessed by "powers" that…
— Carl Jung
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With its array of gadgets and machines, all powered by energies that are destructive of land or air or water,…
— Wendell Berry
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The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every day we make our way through a moral forest, along pathways ever branching. Often we get lost. When the…
— Dean Koontz
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