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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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"Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself."
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"I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited."
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"The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired."
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"Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire."
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"Without 'Gnan' (True Knowledge of the Self), desire(s) will not go away."
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"You need to be greedy or ignorant to truly want to live forever."
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"Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural."
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"Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire."
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"He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures, and sometimes when they were really hungry they created vast banquets in their imagination - but at the end of the day they'd settle quite happily for egg and chips. If it was well done and maybe had a slice of tomato."
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"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."
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"Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate."
Children
"As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones."
Equality
"Computation has finally demystified mentalistic terms. Beliefs are inscriptions in memory, desires are goal inscriptions, thinking is computation, perceptions are inscriptions triggered by sensors, trying is executing operations triggered by a goal."
Intelligence
"Statisticians tell us that people underestimate the sheer number of coincidences that are bound to happen in a world governed by chance."
Knowledge
"We will never have a perfect world, but it's not romantic or naA ve to work toward a better one."
Philosophy
"I believe that the rape-is-not-about-sex doctrine will go down in history as an example of extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds. It is preposterous on the face of it, does not deserve its sanctity, is contradicted by a mass of evidence, and is getting in the way of the only morally relevant goal surrounding rape, the effort to stamp it out."
Society
"Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's vantage point."
Education
"Behavioral science is not for sissies."
Science
"The mind is not designed to grasp the laws of probability, even though the laws rule the universe."
Science
"The Rights Revolutions too have given us ideals that educated people today take for granted but that are virtually unprecedented in human history, such as that people of all races and creeds have equal rights, that women should be free from all forms of coercion, that children should never, ever be spanked, that students should be protected from bullying, and that there's nothing wrong with being gay. I don't find it at all implausible that these are gifts, in part, of a refined and widening application of reason."
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