"The rabid opposition to group selection has now considerably subsided. In the process, the conceptual structure of evolutionary theory has become clearer, as have the relationships that connect different theoretical approaches."

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Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

Elliott Sober

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“In the war room, love? What if someone comes in?â€ I stood and removed his shirt. â€œThen theyâ€™ll have a good story to tell.â€ â€œGood?â€ He adopted the pretense of being offended. â€œProve me wrong.”

Source : Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Fire Study”, p.185, Harlequin
“In manufacturing, where mechanization and the use of chemical processes are much easier, it is easier to raise productivity than in services. In contrast, by their very nature, many service activities are inherently impervious to productivity increase without diluting the quality of the product.”
“Radio has always been pictures of the mind; for me, the essence of radio has always been voices that talk to me and don't patronise me.”
“If youâ€™re looking for the full deal, the till-death deal, then look at me. No oneâ€™s ever going to love you, stick by you, understand how you work the way I do. (Malcolm Kavanaugh)”
“I think this word 'disbelieve' would be the best of all possible worlds if everybody were an atheist or an agnostic or a humanist - his or her own particular brand - but as for compelling people to this, absolutely not.”
“You can always do more than you think you can.”
“Love isnâ€™t only passion and joy. Itâ€™s also sacrifice.”
“Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era of events. The new barbarism of the twentieth century is the echo of words bandied about by brilliant speakers and writers in the second half of the nineteenth.”

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