"The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution."

Nature, American, Constitution, Example

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"The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution."

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"Life is a flowing river. We came from earth and water. We will go back there after the magic of life."

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"Clear skies do not promise rain."

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"Spring dances with joy in every flower and in every bud letting us know that changes are beautiful and an inevitable law of life."

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"Every flower returns to sleep with the earth."

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"Spring is the only season that flutters in on gentle wings and builds nests in our hearts."

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"A puddle repeats infinity, and is full of light; nevertheless, if analyzed objectively, a puddle is a piece of dirty water spread very thin on mud."

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"I hear the sounds of melting snow outside my window every night and with the first faint scent of spring, I remember life exists..."

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"When I am in nature, my heart dances with butterflies and sings along with flowers."

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"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."

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"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."

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"Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage?"

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"As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones."

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"There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization."

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"What is truly arresting about our kind is better captured in the story of the Tower of Babel, in which humanity, speaking a single language, came so close to reaching heaven that God himself felt threatened."

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"My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries."

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"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."

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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."

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"The doctrine of a soul that outlives the body is anything but righteous, because it necessarily devalues the lives we live on this earth."

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