David Sloan Wilson famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Selfishness beats altruism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups. Everything else is commentary.
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One reason that a truth and reconciliation process is needed for group selection is to return to the simplicity of the original problem and Darwin's solution. As Ed Wilson and I put it in our recent review article titled “Rethinking the Theoretical Foundation of Sociobiologyâ€: Selfishness beats altruism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups. Everything else is commentary.
-- David Sloan Wilson
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I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!
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That's okay. You an be selfish with me all you want. I'm yours.
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Humans call animals 'dumb'... after they robbed their entire own precious world. They are intelligent beings in their own right, and thoroughly self-sufficient... if not molested by humans. Yet, after millennia of slavery by selfish/callous humans they're made to look dumb! The 'superior species' in their situations would, too, appear 'dumb'.
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Unless you have a sense of values that's shared by people and turns them loose to do certain things on their own within those sets of values, the organization, whether a nation or corporation or citizen group, just doesn't work very well.
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If you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.
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If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.
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Don't dodge difficulties; meet them, greet them, beat them. All great men have been through the wringer.
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I don't consciously beat the drums for any cause, not even the negro in the United States.
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Chris Brown beat you because you're not pretty enough.
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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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