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When people talk, they lay lines on each other, do a lot of role playing, sidestep, shilly-shally and engage in all manner of vagueness and innuendo. We do this and expect others to do it, yet at the same time we profess to long for the plain truth, for people to say what they mean, simple as that. Such hypocrisy is a human universal.

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Personality and socialization aren't the same thing.

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Racism, because it favors color over talent, is bad for business.

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As long as your ideology identifies the main source of the world's ills as a definable group, it opens the world up to genocide.

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Anything that makes it easier to imagine trading places with someone else increases your moral consideration for that other person.

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There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization.

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Roads, better harnesses for horses, time-keeping devices, financial instruments like a currency that was recognized everywhere in the kingdom, enforceable contracts - all of this made commerce more appealing than plunder.

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I think it may not be a coincidence that the rise of printing and book publication and literacy and the phenomenon of best sellers all preceded the humanitarian reforms of the Enlightenment.

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Being smarter gives you a tailwind throughout life. People who are more intelligent earn more, live longer, get divorced less, are less likely to get addicted to alcohol and tobacco, and their children live longer.

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People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven't given much thought to the connections.

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Scientist

Born: September 18th, 1954

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