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Our humanity consists in the fact that we do more than survive, that a great part of what we do confers no survival benefit in terms presumably salien...more

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I am not the first to suggest that anthropology arose in Western thought in an inauspicious period, one characterized by colonialism and so-called rac...more

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Say that we are a puff of warm breath in a very cold universe. By this kind of reckoning we are either immeasurably insignificant or we are incalculab...more

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Scatter the names of all those who have ever lived over the surface of the knowable cosmos, and it would remain, for all purposes, as unnamed as it wa...more

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Our dream of life will end as dreams do end, abruptly and completely, when the sun rises, when the light comes. And we will think, all that fear and a...more

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Eliminate the overwhelming cost of phantom wars and fools' errands, and humankind might begin to balance its books. After all, its only debts are to i...more

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The embrace of essential beastliness, made scientific and respectable by a reading of Darwin that may or may not have done justice to his intentions, ...more