Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
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Willing to try to get a better atmosphere through a demonstration of democratic principles, fairness and cooperation, a better product, those will win in the end.
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I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.
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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
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Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the ‘environmentalist’ view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
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The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
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