Randolph M. Nesse famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I can't prove it, but I'm pretty sure that people gain a selective advantage from believing in things they can't prove.
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Natural selection involves no plan, no goal, and no direction — just genes increasing and decreasing in frequency depending on whether individuals with those genes have, relative to other individuals, greater or lesser reproductive success.
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If you could make male mortality rates the same as female rates, you would do more good than curing cancer.
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The body is a bundle of careful compromises.
-- Randolph M. Nesse
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I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.
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The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.
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Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
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The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.
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The more I work, the more I see things differently, that is, everything gains in grandeur every day, becomes more and more unknown, more and more beautiful. The closer I come, the grander it is, the more remote it is.
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Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.
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Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoy;Is it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?
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It’s very easy for me to gain weight. Even though I tried not eating for a week when I was really young, I couldn’t do it any longer because I liked my food too much.
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