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Some racists still reject the plain testimony written in the DNA that all the races are not only human but nearly indistinguishable.
Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (2011) 467 -
Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
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The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.
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The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary.
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The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity is the flowering of man; and what are called Genius, Heroism, Holiness, and the like, are but various fruits which succeed it.
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The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine.
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The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike, and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system isn't just a fiction, it's a part of our physical body, and our soul exists in space, and is inside us, like the teeth in our mouth. It can't be forever violated with impunity.
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The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.
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The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally.
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The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.
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The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty.
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The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
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The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and great surprise, we may find our own vision reflected.
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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests.
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The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.
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The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.
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The republic, as I at least understand it, means association, of which liberty is only an element, a necessary antecedent. It means association, a new philosophy of life, a divine Ideal that shall move the world, the only means of regeneration vouchsafed to the human race.
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