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You can't understand European history at all other than through religion, or English literature either if you can't recognise biblical allusions.
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Richard Dawkins
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: March 26
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Suppose that there's a gene that makes you gay if you were bottle-fed but that has some completely different effect if you were breast-fed. So in the days before bottles were invented that gene would not have manifested itself as gay behavior, but now that bottles are common it can do so.
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[Jay] Gould sets up an artificial wall between the two worldviews that doesn't exist in my life.
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