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"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."
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"If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party."
"I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens."
"They realized I was alive again, even though I was playing an old, dying sop."
"I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung."
"Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down."
"You know, I don't mind dying. The thing that pisses me off is that I won't get to be an old man. I was looking forward to that."
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"Could people be trained to be less gullible? Or are you as stuck with gullibility as you are with skin colour?"
"Most of the suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, a place not lacking in wealth. But due to rapid population growth, the wealth per capita has fallen by about half in a generation."
"The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantage over other animals."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Even small cults are a serious cost on the world economy, to victims, their families, employers, friends, and credit-card companies."
"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."
"If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience."
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