"Humans have various ways of coping with extended……" — Robert Wright
"Humans have various ways of coping with extended stress, and one is the anticipation of a better time. Here, as with retribution, there is often a kind of symmetry: the more intense the stress and the more hopeless the situation, the more fabulous the coming times that are anticipated."
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Robert Wright
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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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Big occasions and races which have been eagerly anticipated almost to the point of dread, are where great deeds can…
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There is no question that Francis was in advance of his age, as he anticipated all that is liberal and…
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Wisdom comes from experience, but experience is not enough. Experience anticipated and experience revisited is the true source of wisdom.
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