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"I much prefer the modern world."
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"The world is but a perpetual see-saw."
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"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."
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"I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself."
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"If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone."
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"The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One."
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"The world remains ever the same."
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"One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality."
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"The world is the puzzle, itself; but it is always in principle."
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"Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without."
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"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."
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"Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen."
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"If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience."
Experience
"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."
Environment
"People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations."
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"I much prefer the modern world."
World
"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."
Attention
"People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family."
Change
"Cult recruiting methods based on dosing victims with the brain chemicals released during capture bonding would make cults even more of a problem than they are now."
Now
"People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult."
Family
"Could people be trained to be less gullible? Or are you as stuck with gullibility as you are with skin colour?"
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