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The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.

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The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
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In some ways, I had a traditional ‘old South’ upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an
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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
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Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
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You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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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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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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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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Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.
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It’s always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That’s just in human relationships.
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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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