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The greatest surprise of human evolution may be that the highest form of selfishness is selflessness.


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We have to shift our understanding of ourselves as separate individuals, each seeking our own welfare, to an understanding of how we fit into social, biological, and physical environments.

We have to shift our understanding of ourselves as separate individuals, each seeking our own welfare, to an understanding of how we fit into social, biological, and physical environments.



If you spend too much time being like everybody else, you decrease your chances of coming up with something different.

If you spend too much time being like everybody else, you decrease your chances of coming up with something different.



New research shows that emotions have a separate system of nerve pathways, through the limbic system to the cortex, allowing emotional signals to avoid conscious control.

New research shows that emotions have a separate system of nerve pathways, through the limbic system to the cortex, allowing emotional signals to avoid conscious control.



Human inventiveness is overwhelming human adaptiveness. Our ability to judge lags behind our ability to create.

Human inventiveness is overwhelming human adaptiveness. Our ability to judge lags behind our ability to create.



To keep your resolve, surround yourself with those who want you to succeed. The brain cannot do its job of protecting the body without contact with other people.

To keep your resolve, surround yourself with those who want you to succeed. The brain cannot do its job of protecting the body without contact with other people.



Unconscious decisions for action go on constantly inside the head.

Unconscious decisions for action go on constantly inside the head.



We're worse off than Freud thought, because many actions proceed without our knowing anything about them.

We're worse off than Freud thought, because many actions proceed without our knowing anything about them.





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We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others.

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Things that change history tend to be organized.



I don't know if a country (America) where the people are so ignorant of reality and of history, if you can call that a free world.

I don't know if a country (America) where the people are so ignorant of reality and of history, if you can call that a free world.



A sitcom is the closest thing for me to doing stage because you work in front of an audience, and if it's well written it can be very satisfying.

A sitcom is the closest thing for me to doing stage because you work in front of an audience, and if it's well written it can be very satisfying.



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If you're going to binge, literature is definitely the way to do it.



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