"Understanding the often unconscious nature of genetic control is the first step toward understanding thatâ€”in many realms, not just sexâ€”weâ€™re all puppets, and our best hope for even partial liberation is to try to decipher the logic of the puppeteer."

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Source : Robert Wright (2010). “The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology”, p.48, Vintage

Robert Wright

#Sex Quotes #Understanding Quotes #Trying Quotes

“What I've been trying to do for years is to get the music played on a station other than jazz stations, you know, to expand the audience.”
“In a world where so much that is wild and free has been lost to us, we must leave these beautiful animals free to swim as they will and must. They do us no harm and wish us none and we should let them alone.”
“WE HAVE SEEN that hunger and breathing are desires of the body. There are other desires that are not of the body, but again man seldom pauses to observe these desires in himself.”

Source : "Knowing Yourself: The True in the False". Book by Barry Long, 1996.
“I condemn the national gay press for its emphasis on consumerism.”
“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”
“No one can train you to be famous. How do you deal with the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy? You have to be disciplined.”
“I feel like, these days there's so much music and so many bands, that it's exciting to hear when people go through the whole process with their own sort of system of making the music. It gives it a much more personal individual feel, like unique feel, when somebody has a really idiosyncratic set-up, or they just have what might be considered strange ways of going about the process that yields results that are not just cookie-cutter sounds like everything else... and I think that can only be a positive thing.”
“Few fears are rational.”

Source : Joan Slonczewski (2000). “A Door Into Ocean”, p.101, Macmillan

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