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"Evolutionarily speaking, there is seldom any mystery in why we seek the goals we seek - why, for example, people would rather make love with an attractive partner than get a slap on the belly with a wet fish."
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"By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu."
Science
"Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language."
Art
"But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses."
Information
"I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor."
Artist
"Why do people believe that there are dangerous implications of the idea that the mind is a product of the brain, that the brain is organized in part by the genome, and that the genome was shaped by natural selection?"
People
"Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage?"
Mind
"So no, it's not all in the genes, but what isn't in the genes isn't in the family environment either. It can't be explained in terms of the overall personalities or the child-rearing practices of parents."
Family
"Personality and socialization aren't the same thing."
Personality
"As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones."
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"I don't consider myself to be that radical a thinker."
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"There is a correlation between the number of days since a man last had sex, and, the number of women that he is convinced he is in love with, or, the number of things that he is willing to do for a woman."
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"And the women who had thought they wanted dresses never realized that what they had wanted was happiness."
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"Lust is the blessing of the fruit of the womb."
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"Thou art a votary to fond desire."
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"Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love."
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"Life curses some poor people with the love of luxury, while it blesses some with the very same thing."
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"What I want is only a wish."
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"We' (the Gnani Purush, the enlightened one) have only one desire, and that too is a discharging desire of doing 'Jagat kalyan' (world's salvation)."
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"You are moving on the chariot of your desire whatever you are thinking is always right."
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"Desire grows by what it feeds on."
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