#truism

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In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time.


E. O. Wilson


#colleagues #dismantled #harvard #i #mathematician

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.


E. O. Wilson


#among #group #individual #members #mix

What does it mean to be the best? It means you have to be better than the number two guy. But what gratification is there in that? He's a loser—that’s why he's number two.


Jarod Kintz


#best #bizarre #competing #competition #competitor

In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.


John Buchanan Robinson


#antithesis #brief #egoism #idealism #interpretation

The second truism that we must understand is that poverty does not create our social problems, our social problems create our poverty.


Marco Rubio


#does #must #our #poverty #problems

What is nobler," she mused, turning over the photographs, "than to be a woman to whom every one turns, in sorrow or difficulty?


Virginia Woolf


#inspirational #selflessness #woman #inspirational

And you spend your day going around from the house of the washerman to the house of the sweeper, asking about this one's son and that one's nephew, but spending no time with your own family. It is no secret that many people here think that you are a communist.' Rasheed reflected that this probably meant only that he loathed the poverty and injustice endemic to the village, and that he made no particular secret of it.


Vikram Seth


#communism #poverty #social-injustice #family

In life, more than in anything else, it isn’t easy to end up alive.


Roman Payne


#death #dying #funny #humor #humour

Life without knowledge is death in disguise...


Talib Kweli


#truism #death

Fey...a Scotch word...It means the kind of exalted happiness that comes before disaster. You know--it's too good to be true.


Agatha Christie


#death