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“if my body wasn’t faltering, I would have asked, “Do you feel nothing else? Are the compartments of your heart not roomy enough?”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dream Count

“The prestige of the news is founded on the unstated assumption that our lives are forever poised on the verge of critical transformation thanks to the two driving forces of modern history: politics and technology.”
― Alain de Botton, Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion

“The brain is heavily influenced by genes. But from birth through young adulthood, the part of the human brain that most defines us (frontal cortex) is less a product of the genes with which you started life than of what life has thrown at you. Because it is the last to mature, by definition the frontal cortex is the brain region least constrained by genes and most sculpted by experience. This must be so, to be the supremely complex social species that we are. Ironically, it seems that the genetic program of human brain development has evolved to, as much as possible, free the frontal cortex from genes.”
― Robert M. Sapolsky, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

“To borrow Wittgenstein’s famous metaphor, morality can climb the ladder of evolution and then kick it away. As”
― Joshua Greene, Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them