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• Some people give themselves over to their most evil desires, and those people becomes evil. But in general, it's reductive to think of evil as something foreign and separate from the rest of us. Evil is part of everyone. We all have the capacity to commit evil acts.

  Bill James
  American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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• The people I really do dislike are the morally unimaginative kind of evolutionary reductionists who, in the name of science, think they can explain everything in terms of our early hominid ancestors or our genes, with their combination of high-handed tone and disregard for history. Such reductive speculation encourages a really empty scientism.

  Bernard Williams
  English philosopher (1929 - 2003)
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• We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.

  Ben Okri
  Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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