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Left to our baser impulses, humans collectively constitute a greedy parasite that's sucking all of the resources from the planet—at the cost of all other forms of life. Yes, I know you know about climate change and mass extinctions.

But please—can't we act a bit more sensibly?

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“When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?” 

—John Maynard Keynes

"There is always an easy solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong." 

—H.L. Mencken

"The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holder's lack of rational conviction."

—Bertrand Russell

“He hated it when you called him a moron. All morons hate it when you call them a moron.”

 —J.D. Salinger

“Trying to educate a bigot is like shining light into the pupil of an eye—it constricts.”

—Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

“I hate politics and belief in politics, because it makes men arrogant, doctrinaire, obstinate, and inhuman.”

—Thomas Mann

“Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another’s world. It requires profound purpose larger than the self kind of understanding.”
—Bill Bullard

“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions that differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.” 

—Albert Einstein