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Our physiological constitution is obviously a product of Darwinian processes, insofar as you buy the evolutional theory as a generative, as an account of the mechanism that generated us. Our physiology evolved, our behaviors evolved, and our accounts of those behaviors, both successful and unsuccessful, evolved.
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I suppose for a very long time I've been trying to understand how it is that people might make sense out of their lives and make meaning and make their lives meaningful in the face of the trouble that life brings.
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You can't just slander someone, defame them, lie about them. You can't incite people to crime. There's all sorts of reasonable restrictions on free speech that are already codified in the British common-law system.
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I've known for years that the university underserved the community, because we assumed that university education is for 18- to 22-year-olds, which is a proposition that's so absurd it is absolutely mind-boggling that anyone ever conceptualized it. Why wouldn't you take university courses throughout your entire life?
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The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are.
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It's in the best interest of the radical left types - best psychological and strategic interest - to refuse to admit to the possibility that reasonable people can object to their ideological staff. Because if reasonable people objected, that would imply that their ideological stance is not reasonable.
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There were some great clinicians in the 20th century - great men. Freud was a genius; Jung was a genius, Carl Rogers was a genius - there's a half-dozen psychologists of the 1950s and humanists of the 1960s.
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You may say, 'Well, dragons don't exist.' It's, like, yes they do - the category 'predator' and the category 'dragon' are the same category. It absolutely exists. It's a superordinate category. It exists absolutely more than anything else. In fact, it really exists.
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I have a hard time figuring out what kind of box to put me in, too, because I don't know exactly what's going on around me or why. But I need to stay outside of boxes because then I can look at what's inside of them without being part of them.
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If the standard transsexual person wants to be regarded as he or she, my sense is I'll address you according to the part that you appear to be playing.
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Kathleen Wynne and her band of radical-left cronies think they have a handle on what constitutes human identity and also what should constitute human morality. And I think that that's being pushed in a manner in schools that's completely reprehensible. It's not education, in my estimation. It's a form of indoctrination.
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That's another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it's as if things were coming together in my mind. It's like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it's it's like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.
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You can say, 'Well, isn't it unfortunate that chaos is represented by the feminine' - well, it might be unfortunate, but it doesn't matter, because that is how it's represented. It's been represented like that forever. And there are reasons for it. You can't change it. It's not possible. This is underneath everything.
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You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.
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If you learn a martial art, you learn to be dangerous, but simultaneously, you learn to control it.
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It's a small percentage of people who do the 80-hour-a-week high-powered career thing, and they're almost all men. Why? Well, men are driven by socio-economic status more than women.
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One of the things I've told men over and over and over and over is if you're being rejected by all the women that you approach, it's not the women!
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Whether or not I like a piece of data has very little bearing on whether or not I am likely to accept it.
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Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.
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In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.
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I'm interested in what motivates individuals to participate in atrocious acts to support their ideological identification.
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I think Canadians are more interested in international events than Americans because it is such a small country, so politics affect it more.
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The connection between psychology, mythology, and literature is as important as the connection between psychology and biology and the hard sciences.
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I like to recede away from classifications. You might say that indicates a fundamental lack of commitment. I suppose that's true to some degree.
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I do believe that there are places where the mythological and the literal touch.
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Free speech is not just another value. It's the foundation of Western civilization.
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I've studied authoritarianism for a very long time - for 40 years - and they're started by people's attempts to control the ideological and linguistic territory.
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I'm always surprised when people respond positively to what I am saying, given its seriousnessness and strange nature.
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It's not proper for the government to intrude too thoroughly into the domain of the family. It's inappropriate.
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If you don't stand your ground, then all that happens is people push you backwards.
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It's very hard to find your own words - and you don't actually exist until you have your own words.
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When you start to realise how much of what you've constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.
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The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don't like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they're 95 percent dead wood.
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The people who hold that our culture is an oppressive patriarchy, they don't want to admit that the current hierarchy might be predicated on competence.
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