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Money is a society’s effort to reduce everything to a common measure, and get us away from trading clamshells for pottery.

— Harold Lewis Why Flip a Coin? The Art and Science of Good Decisions (1997)

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Despite the babbling of the creationists, evolution is inevitable in a competitive world, and it does work.

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Philosophy is the misuse of a terminology which was invented for just this purpose.

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People who claim there is no such thing as native intelligence are nuts.

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Someone once said that he had made many mistakes in life, but never because he knew too much.

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It is a fallacy of human perception to see patterns that aren’t there, and to see order where there is none.

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