Robert Ardrey - The Territorial Imperative (1966)

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There is a virtue, I must presume, in shamelessness, since by placing on parade the things one does not know, one discovers that no one else knows either.

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A bird does not fly because it has wings; it has wings because it flies.

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The dog barking at you from behind his master's fence acts for a motive indistinguishable from that of his master when the fence was built.

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There is nothing so moving - not even acts of love or hate - as the discovery that one is not alone.

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Men, unlike mockingbirds, have the capacity for systematic self-delusion. We echo each other with equal precision, equal eloquence, equal assurance.

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We may agree, for example, that our societies must provide greater security for the individual; yet if all we succeed in producing is a providing increased anonymity and ever increasing boredom, then we should not wonder if ingenious man turns to such amusements as drugs, housebreaking, vandalism, mayhem, riots, or - at the most harmless - strange haircuts, costumes, standards of cleanliness, and sexual experiments.

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What truly leads the evolutionary procession, in other words, is behavior.

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Natural selection deals ruthlessly with any population, bird or beaver, which fails to solve the problems of its environment with all those resources, learned or unlearned, which may be at its disposal.

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