The selfish gene

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“After all, legs are actually made of food!”

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“Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use, and that the mere presence in the dictionary of a word like 'living' does not mean it necessarily has to refer to something definite in the real world.”

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“Living organisms have existed on earth, without ever knowing why, for over three thousand million years before the truth finally dawned on them. His name was Charles Darwin. To be fair, others had inklings of the truth, but it was Darwin who first put together a coherent and tenable account of why we exist. Darwin made it possible for us to give a sensible answer to the question [Why are people?] We no longer have to resort to superstition when faced with the deep problems: Is there a meaning to life? What are we for? What is man?”

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“If I say that I am more interested in preventing the slaughter of large whales than I am in improving the housing conditions for people, I am likely to shock some of my friends.”