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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?"
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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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Personal Development
"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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Personal Development
"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."
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"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."
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"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."
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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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"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 can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family."
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"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."
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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?"
People
"High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment."
Environment
"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."
Growth
"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."
Animals
"Some people recovering from drugs or alcohol stay with the programs indefinitely, making the recovery program their family, a long-term source of attention rewards."
Family
"Action leads to Attention. that in the short-term releases Rewarding brain chemicals and in the long term improves reproductive success."
Success
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