"Just as blueprints don't necessarily specify blue buildings, selfish genes don't necessarily specify selfish organisms. As we shall see, sometimes the most selfish thing a gene can do is build a selfless brain. Genes are a play within a play, not the interior monologue of the players."

-- Steven Pinker

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“Don't try to skin your rabbit and keep it as a pet too.”
“In your life’s journey, there will be excitement and fulfillment, boredom and routine, and even the occasional train wreck… But when you have picked a dream that is bigger than you personally, that truly reflects the ideals that you cherish, and that can positively affect others, then you will always have another reason for carrying on.”
“The relationship with your self is the most important relationship you'll ever have.”
“When Bangladesh refused to renew my passport, I used U.N. travel documents. You can't disown your country.”
“I'm not allowed to get a big head, I've still got to do the simple things in life.”
“The fact is that five years ago I was, as near as possible, a different person to what I am tonight. I, as I am now, didn't exist at all. Will the same thing happen in the next five years? I hope so.”
“I train to be the best in the world on my worst day”
“Men who are engaged in public life must necessarily aim at reducing opposition to a minimum, and one of the most obvious means to that end is by misrepresenting, discrediting or ruining their opponents.”

Source : Frederick Scott Oliver (1934). “Politics and politicians”

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