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Mankind is divided into two basic sorts: those who find the unknown future threatening... and those who find it thrilling. The rupture between those two sides has been responsible for most of the bloodshed in history.

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Man has historically devoted much more subtle and ingenious thought to inflicting cruelty than to giving others pleasure — which, given his gregarious nature, would seem a much more survival-oriented behavior. Poll any hundred people at random and you'll find at least twenty or thirty who know all there is to know about psychological torture and psychic castration — and maybe two who know how to give a terrific back-rub.

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