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"Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses."
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"But I knew that what had happened was an eye-opener not only to the United States but also to Pakistan, who realized that after what has happened on the 11th of September, it was simply impossible to continue to play those games in Afghanistan."
"There's no country in the world that's more devastated from natural resources than Afghanistan."
"Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan."
"The Buddhas had to be destroyed by the Taliban to get the world thinking about Afghanistan."
"There's an 800 kilometer border between Iran and Afghanistan."
"But also, there are no films being made about Afghanistan."
"We didn't do anything wrong, but among the lessons learned, given the magnitude of the problems we now face in Afghanistan, a major U.S. force on the ground would convince the world we were in for the long-haul recovery of a country devastated by 21 years of warfare."
"Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else."
"Certainly the existence of these huge nuclear force was important for the ultimate confrontation, let's say, over western Europe. You just can't use them to deal with a situation like Afghanistan."
"We don't consider the battle has ended in Afghanistan... The battle has begun and its fires are picking up. These fires will reach the White House, because it is the center of injustice and tyranny."
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"Even small cults are a serious cost on the world economy, to victims, their families, employers, friends, and credit-card companies."
"Primates will continue to play social games without the least insight into what is killing them."
"Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes."
"Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and endorphins."
"I can't think of anyone who is up on evolutionary psychology and related areas who is deluded enough to be called a utopian."
"The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older."
"As for leadership, I am the kind who leads reluctantly and more by example than anything else. Someone had to be on the incorporation papers as president."
"I suspect that a substantial fraction of human problems in the world today, not just cults, result from the mismatch between the current environment and the environment in which we evolved."
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