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I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.
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In little more than a single century from 1820 to 19450, no less than fifty-nine million human animals were killed in inter-group clashes of one sort or another.... We describe these killings as men behaving "like animals," but if we could find a wild animal that showed signs of acting this way, it would be more precise to describe it as behaving like men."
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of eighteen kittens reared in the company of rodents, only three became rodent-killers later on. The other fifteen could not be trained to kill later by seeing other cats killing. For them the rodents had become 'family' and were no longer 'prey'. Even the three killers would not attack rodents of the same species as the one with which they were reared.
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Frequently we imagine that we are behaving in a particular way because such behaviour accords with some abstract, lofty code of moral principles, when in reality all we are doing is obeying a deeply ingrained and long 'forgotten' set of purely imitative impressions.
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The news that is brought to us is nearly always bad news, but for every act of violence or destruction that occurs there are a million acts of peaceful friendliness.
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Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo. The
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In an earlier chapter I mentioned recent research which has shown that the preference for sweet and fruity odours falls off dramatically at puberty, when there is a shift in favour of flowery, oily and musky odours. The juvenile weakness for sweetness can be easily exploited, and frequently is.
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The establishment's reply is that dissenting students are bent, not on positive innovation, but on negative disruption. Against this, however, it can be argued that these two processes are very closely related and that the former only degenerates into the latter when it finds itself blocked.
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The word 'love' is, in fact, the way we commonly describe the emotional feelings that accompany the imprinting process.
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The only reason why we are always having the doctrine of original sin instilled into us, in one form or another, is that the artificial conditions of the super-tribe keep on working against our biological altruism, and it needs all the help it can get.
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As a species we may be technologically clever and philosophically brilliant, but we have not lost our animal property of being physically active;
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Hemos llegado al punto en que debemos dejar de sentirnos satisfechos, la solucion es evidente: reducir el ritmo de la natalidad, sin poner obstaculos a la estructura social existente; evitar un aumento en cantidad, sin impedir un aumento en calidad.
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humanos
extincion
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poblacion
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Detras de la fachada de la ciudad moderna, sigue morando el viejo mono desnudo. Solo los nombres han cambiado: en vez de caza, decimos "trabajo"; en vez de campo de caza, "barrio comercial", en vez de cubil, "hogar", en vez de apareamiento, "matrimonio"; en vez de companera, "esposa", etcetera."
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humanos
moderno
sociedad
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Por estudios realizados sobre otras especies en estado de superpoblacion experimental, sabemos que llega un momento en el que el aumento de densidad de poblacion alcanza un punto extremo en el que se destruye toda la estructura social.
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extincion
malthus
poblacion
superpoblacion
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As a species we are a predominantly intelligent and exploratory animal, and beliefs harnessed to this fact will be the most beneficial for us. A belief in the validity of the acquisition of knowledge and a scientific understanding of the world we live in, the creation and appreciation of aesthetic phenomena in all their many forms, and the broadening and deepening of our range of experiences in day-to-day living, is rapidly becoming the 're..
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literature
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religion
science
belief
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