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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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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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Arise Character Deeper Religion Then True Well
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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Always Back Carrer Mind New Point Reach Ready Something Write
Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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Across Belief Change Come Demonstrate Even Fall Generation Hard Slowly
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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Always Been Belief Belong Great Human People Relationship Superior Survival Tribe Value
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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All Among Country Winner Culture Darwinian Flourish Major None Religious Rival Struggle Tolerate Wage
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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Belief Competing Essential Evolve Group Illogic Religion Selection Strength Weakness
Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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Company Further Growth Share Willing Withhold
This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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Descendant Folly Forgive Least Likely Our
Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.
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All Ant Biomass Insect Make Third Two
I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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Believe Consequence Dogma Evolution Religious Tend
Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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All Can Give Need Persist World You
Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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Corrupt Ideology Mind Political Science
An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being’s, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.
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Being Brain Even Human Individual Laboratory Maze Millionth Rat Simple Size Thought Use
What’s been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.
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Biology Effort Toward Enough Gratifying Molecule Research
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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Altruism Among Group Individual Member Mix Selfishness Society Versus Virtue
The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.
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Century Challenge Economic Major Majority Much Planet Save Situation

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