"Evolutionary psychologists seem to want to unmask our noblest motives as ultimately self-interested - to show that our love for children, compassion for the unfortunate and sense of justice are just tactics in a Darwinian struggle to perpetuate our genes."

-- Steven Pinker

#Children Quotes #Struggle Quotes #Compassion Quotes

“Love isn't lying, it's loose in a lady who lingers, saying she is lost, and choking on hello.”
“Endless motorbike talk can and does bore me.”
“Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.”

Source : James Mark Baldwin (1913). “History of psychology”
“The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.”
“Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair, comfortable progress in the path of life.”

Source : William Banting (1864). “Letter on Corpulence: Addressed to the Public”, p.13
“Patriotism covers a multitude of sins.”

Source : Carolyn Wells (1908). “The Carolyn Wells Year Book of Old Favorites and New Fancies for 1909”
“[To] explain the phenomena of the mineral kingdom ... systems are usually reduced to two classes, according as they refer to the origin of terrestrial bodies to FIRE or to WATER; and ... their followers have of late been distinguished by the fanciful names of Vulcanists and Neptunists. To the former of these Dr HUTTON belongs much more than to the latter; though, as he employs the agency both of fire and water in his system, he cannot, in strict propriety, be arranged with either.”
“the parties are no fun until everyone gets drunk”

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