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Human beings are emotional amoral egoists, driven above all by emotional self-interest. All of our thoughts, beliefs and motivations are neurochemically mediated, some predetermined for survival, others alterable.

— Nayef Al-Rodhan Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009)

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