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As Montesquieu wrote, "If triangles had a god they would give him three sides.") For

Unfortunately for cosmic justice, many gifted writers are scoundrels, and many inept ones are the salt of the earth.

These 'anthropologists of peace' (who in fact are rather aggressive academics - the ethologist Johan van der Dennen calls them the Peace and Harmony Mafia.

Poverty needs no explanation; it is the natural state of humankind. What needs an explanation is wealth.

It's really only nuclear weapons that deserve the WMD acronym.

Como escribió Montesquieu: «Si los triángulos tuvieran un dios, le darían tres lados».)

The first is that we (and the hypothetical child we have been imagining) have framed the rule too broadly.

The amount of violence in a society is more closely related to its inequality than to its poverty.

Among economic measures, inequality is generally a better predictor of violence than unemployment.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. —Carl Sagan

A reporter once sent Cary Grant the telegram, "How old Cary Grant?" He replied, "Old Cary Grant fine.

Yet the single best predictor of emancipative values is the World Bank's Knowledge Index

As Homer Simpson said to Marge when she warned him that he would regret his conduct, "That's a problem for future Homer. Man, I don't envy that guy.

As we saw in chapter 3, one way the early modern Europeans used Odyssean self-control was to keep sharp knives out of reach at the dinner table.

Vengeance is no disease: it is necessary for cooperation, preventing a nice guy from being exploited.

A state is conceived as a location in a space of possible states, and change is equated with moving from one location to another in that state-space.

otro morirá.37 La tercera clase de tabú de Tetlock es el contrafáctico herético.

The best definition comes from the linguist Max Weinreich: a language is a dialect with an army and a navy.

The tanginess of a literary metaphor must come from some extra ingredients that spice up a mere overlapping of traits.

The thoughts of letting go of everything I love overwhelms like a tsunami of sorrow.

No specter assails us in more varied disguises than loneliness, and one of its most impenetrable masks is called love.

I love Latino culture but I hate the concept of "la raza." It is a divisive mindset.

Faith is the champion of Grace, and Love the nurse; but Humility is the beauty of Grace.

Dearest comrades, all is over and long gone, But love is not over.