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Konrad Lorenz

"Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man."

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"Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man."

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"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step."

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"Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition."

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"There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls."

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"My other Main Man is Muhamed Ali, for the obvious reasons."

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"If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms."

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"I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we."
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"Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value."
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