John Tooby famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The assertion that 'culture' explains human variation will be taken seriously when there are reports of women war parties raiding villages to capture men as husbands, or of parent cloistering their sons but not their daughters to protect their sons' virtue, or when cultural distributions for preferences concerning physical attractiveness, earning power, relative age and so on show as many cultures with bias in one direction as in the other.
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Individual organisms are best thought of as adaptation-executers rather than as fitness-maximizers.
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Entropy makes things fall, but life ingeniously rigs the game so that when they do they often fall into place.
-- John Tooby
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I believe it from the bottom of my heart, and your sons and daughters, too, can have the American dream come true.
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
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Mom loved my brother more. Not that she didn't love me - I felt the wash of her love every day, pouring over me, but it was a different kind, siphoned from a different, and tamer, body of water. I was her darling daughter; Joseph was her it.
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I dream of a true husband—a good man, not a brute, nor a champion of men on the battlefield; I dream but of a gentle man, one who neither speaks too loud nor ignores evil. I pray for such a like-minded mate, who will be ever for me like harmony to music, virtue to the soul, prosperity to the state, and forethought to the universe.
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Many husbands today pitch in to help with household chores - it's called partnership.
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Woman's world is her husband, her family, her children and her home. We do not find it right when she presses into the world of men.
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I have finally become a husband and I am genuinely enjoying every moment of it.
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Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
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Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.
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The God of Battles will throw the dice that decide...
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