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The less it is possible that something can be, the more it must be.
Robert M. Sapolsky
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But often, it's easier to resist temptation with distraction, or to be so inculcated in doing the right thing that it's automatic, outside the frontal cortex's portfolio - Then it isn't the harder thing, it's the only thing you can do.
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Genes are rarely about inevitability, especially when it comes to humans, the brain, or behavior. They're about vulnerability, propensities, tendencies.
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If a rat is a good model for your emotional life, you're in big trouble.
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Only humans invent moralizing gods who monitor our behavior.
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