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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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"This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun."
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"Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?"
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"Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying."
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"It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an Oscar."
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"And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying."
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"With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying."
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"They realized I was alive again, even though I was playing an old, dying sop."
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"You could hear him, literally, half a mile away when he opened up. He was at his peak then. He was, naturally, dying to get out of the place he was in, and he recorded for us his appeal for pardon to the governor."
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"The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying."
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"The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell."
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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."
Success
"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?"
People
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