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“If everybody fought for nothing but his own convictions, there wouldn’t be any wars,”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace
“The fundamental reason is that we each carry within us an evolutionary blueprint for making a good society.”
― Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society
― Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society
“At the core of all societies, I will show, is the social suite: (1) The capacity to have and recognize individual identity (2) Love for partners and offspring (3) Friendship (4) Social networks (5) Cooperation (6) Preference for one’s own group (that is, “in-group bias”) (7) Mild hierarchy (that is, relative egalitarianism) (8) Social learning and teaching”
― Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society
― Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society
“What was happening to her, was she dying, were those her “hundred things”? She sat quietly in her chair, they weren’t a hundred things but much more than a hundred, and not only hers; a hundred times “a hundred things,” next to each other, separate from each other, touching, here and there flowing into each other, without any link anywhere, and at the same time linked forever . .”
― The Ten Thousand Things
― The Ten Thousand Things
“It’s really very simple. If you tell a beautiful woman that she is beautiful, what have you given her? It’s no more than a fact and it has cost you nothing. But if you tell an ugly woman that she is beautiful, you offer her the great homage of corrupting the concept of beauty. To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless. She’s earned it, it’s a payment, not a gift. But to love her for her vices is a real gift, unearned and undeserved. To love her for her vices is to defile all virtue for her sake—and that is a real tribute of love, because you sacrifice your conscience, your reason, your integrity and your invaluable self-esteem.”
― Atlas Shrugged
― Atlas Shrugged
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