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“I never lose, I either win or learn”
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“Epictetus therefore advises us not to seek social status, since if we make it our goal to please others, we will no longer be free to please ourselves. We will, he says, have enslaved ourselves.”
― A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
― A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
“It turns out that Darwin and a century of biologists following him were wrong in one key respect: evolution does not always plod along at a snail's pace. When natural selection is strong—as occurs when conditions change—evolution can rip along at light speed.”
― Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution
― Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution
“My parents taught me that there has never been any correlation between how true something was and how fervently it was believed.”
― For Small Creatures Such as We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World
― For Small Creatures Such as We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World
“In human evolution, the development of bipedalism clearly came a long way before significant increases in brain size – we walked the walk before we could talk the talk.”
― Origins: How the Earth Shaped Human History
― Origins: How the Earth Shaped Human History
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