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"Personality and socialization aren't the same thing."
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"She has a serene, glowing disposition. She looks at you and the rest of the world through the eyes of a lynx and is always mysterious, possibly because she always harbours those hidden laughs just beneath her lips. She's always ready to laugh."
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"I can eat you at breakfast, not because I am a monster; it is only because you are too cute and yummy."
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"He sniggered.He didn't like to think of himself as the sort of person who giggled or sniggered, but he had to admit that he had been giggling and sniggering almost continuously for well over half an hour now."
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"Oh, I forgot to mention it: My brother is the kind of man whom women stalk. In cooperative packs."
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"Only a mediocre person is always at his best."
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"She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she were important."
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"Possessed of that indescribable charm called grace."
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"Humanism is not a single character. It is a magnificent blend of various emotional and behavioral traits that are unique to the human mind."
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"Be charming at any age."
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"You're playing the creepy vibe a little hard, I said. "Might as well go for broke, put on a black top hat and pipe in some organ music."
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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."
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"I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor."
Artist
"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
"I don't consider myself to be that radical a thinker."
Radical
"The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero."
Doctrine
"There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization."
Culture
"Some people think that evolutionary psychology claims to have discovered that human nature is selfish and wicked. But they are flattering the researchers and anyone who would claim to have discovered the opposite. No one needs a scientist to measure whether humans are prone to knavery. The question has been answered in the history books, the newspapers, the ethnographic record, and the letters to Ann Landers. But people treat it like an open question, as if someday science might discover that it's all a bad dream and we will wake up to find that it is human nature to love one another."
Psychology
"One of the tragic ironies of the second half of the 20th century is that when colonies in the developing world freed themselves from European rule, they often slid back into warfare, this time intensified by modern weaponry, organized militias, and the freedom of young men to defy tribal elders.77 As we shall see in the next chapter, this development is a countercurrent to the historical decline of violence, but it is also a demonstration of the role of Leviathans in propelling the decline."
History
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