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Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are

by Robert Plomin

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The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception

by James J. Gibson

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The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life

by Kevin Simler

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“All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all of which limit it to a fake learnedness.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks

tags: philosophy, politics

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“My power is my property. My power gives me property. My power am I myself, and through it am I my property.”
― Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own

tags: ego, philosophy, power, property, self

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“We must realize that war is universal and strife is justice, and that all things come into the world and pass away through strife.”
― Heraclitus

tags: philosophy

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“Behavioral science is not for sissies.”
― Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

tags: psychology

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“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.”
― George Orwell, Politics and the English Language

tags: clarity, english-language, insincerity, obscurantism

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