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The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
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Religion is the best illustration of the elephant in the brain. We do not worship because we believe. We worship because it helps us as social creatures.
Robin Hanson • The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
The desk clerk, whose name-plate identified him as G. O. Horner, was a thin, elderly man with protuberant eyes that gave him an expression of intense interest and curiosity. The expression was false. After thirty years in the business, people meant no more to him than individual bees do to a beekeeper. Their differences were lost in a welter of sta
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Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Wisehouse Classics Edition)
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“The modern man is always claiming a self-sufficiency which he is unable to achieve. He constantly compares himself with other people and, afraid that they might be superior, he secretly copies their manners and borrows their desires.”