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Women assigned greater importance to a partner’s financial prospect (thirty-six cultures) and ambition/industriousness (twenty-nine cultures).
The Parasitic Mind
Gad Saad
Eternity is at the very least 13.8 billion years – the current age of the universe. Planet Earth was formed about 4.5 billion years ago, and humans have existed for at least 2 million years. In contrast, the city of Jerusalem was established just 5,000 years ago and the Jewish people are at most 3,000 years old.
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
A whole family of self-flattering words serves as benedictions for the vision of the anointed. “Progress” and “progressive” are prominent examples. But everyone is for “progress,” by definition. They differ only on specifics, though these differences may be extreme and even violent. Words like “progress” or “progressive” preempt these specific issues by arbitrarily assuming the differential desirability of one’s own preferred changes, without having to debate substance—or even acknowledge its relevance.
The Vision of the Anointed
Thomas Sowell
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