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The Origins of Virtue (1996)
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Society works not because we have consciously invented it, but because it is an ancient product of our evolved predispositions. It is literally in our nature.
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Our minds have been built by selfish genes, but they have been built to be social, trustworthy and cooperative.
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With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Edgar Allan Poe
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