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"Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with."
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"It takes all sorts of people to make a world, as I've often heard, but I think there are some who could be spared,' Anne told her reflection in the east gable mirror that night."
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Personal Development

"Most peoples are prisoners of other people's thoughts."
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Personal Development

"Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home."
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"Your water is in the bottles, and my water is in the bucket, but we are brothers? I am collecting garbage, and you are in the bed, but we are sisters? My fingers are broken, and your hands are so soft, but we are family? Your God is like an angel, and my God is like an evil, but we are equal? My stomach is empty, and your stomach is so big, but we are humans?"
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Personal Development

"PLEASE and THANK YOU...two polite phrases which are slowly disappearing from our vocabulary."
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Personal Development

"We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche."
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Personal Development

"Women who don't like the rules change the rules."
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Personal Development

"Large families are communities unto their own."
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Personal Development

"People are very busy; they are so busy that when they walk in the crowds they see no one, no one but themselves; they hear no voice, no voice but their own voice!"
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Personal Development

"Probably the people on the street know better than the people at home."
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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."
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

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

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

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

"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."
Philosophy

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

"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

"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

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