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J. Philippe Rushton

"I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985."

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"I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985."

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"If I show up at your house ten years from now and find nothing in your living room but The Readers Digest, nothing on your bedroom night table but the newest Dan Brown novel, and nothing in your bathroom but Jokes for the John, I'll chase you down to the end of your driveway and back, screaming 'Where are your books? You graduated college ten years ago, so how come there are no damn books in your house? Why are you living on the intellectual equivalent of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese?"

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"Everything has changed. . . except the way we think. The aim [of education] must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals, who, however, see in the service of community their highest life problems."

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"A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species."
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"Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits."
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"To deny the predictive validity of race at this level is nonscientific and unrealistic."
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"Those objecting to the concept of race argue that the taxonomic definitions are arbitrary and subjective."
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"Race differences show up early in life."
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"Startling, and alarming to many, is the conclusion that follows from these data that if all people were treated the same, most average race differences would not disappear."
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"Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms."
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"The mean pattern of educational and economic achievement within multi-racial countries such as Canada and the United States has increasingly been found to prove valid internationally."
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"Formation of a new race takes place when, over several generations, individuals in one group reproduce more frequently among themselves than they do with individuals in other groups."
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