“One reason that a truth and reconciliation process is needed for group selection is to return to the simplicity of the original problem and Darwin’s solution. As Ed Wilson and I put it in our recent review article titled “Rethinking the Theoretical Foundation of Sociobiology“: Selfishness beats altruism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups. Everything else is commentary.” ReasonProblemProcessGroupsReturnNeededBeatsSolutionsOriginalsFoundationSimplicitySelfishSelfishnessReviewsArticlesAltruismSelectionReconciliationTheoreticalCommentaryWilsonRethinking Author:David Sloan Wilson
“Morality, like other inputs into the social process, follows the law of diminishing returns- meaning ultimately, negative returns. People can be too moral.” PeopleLawSocialProcessMoralReturnMoralityNegativeInputDiminishing Returns Book:Knowledge And Decisions Source: Knowledge And Decisions
“We must look at what immigration to America involves. To the new arrivals, the change is excruciating. Learning a new language and dealing with strange customs make the first years of life in the new land painful... The economic system of the United States is a mighty engine of persuasion. It motivates people to do what otherwise they never would in return for fulfilling their dreams. In the process, people learn that there is no sharp line between physical well-being and the higher purposes of life. The comfort of owning a house is at once meeting the obligation to care for one” PeopleYearsFirstsWellsLooksStatesDreamCareAmericaPurposeHouseLanguageProcessLinesUnitedUnited StatesEconomicLandStrangeReturnHigherComfortMeetingsPainfulImmigrationObligationWell BeingCustomsPurpose Of LifeEnginesFulfillingPersuasionArrivalsEconomic SystemsYears Of LifeHigher PurposeNew Arrivals Author:John Lachs
“Its contempt for citizens ... is so routine, and so unlimited, that the agency has become a kind of Frankenstein, running wild and terrorizing Americans at will. The IRS hypocritically requires mistake-free returns when its own books are in shambles. It demands exorbitant sums of money without regard to the accuracy of its claims. It doesn't hesitate to use every possible maneuver to get what it wants, sometimes destroying businesses -- and lives -- in the process.” WantKindBookSometimesUseRunningProcessMistakeReturnCitizensDemandClaimsRegardAgencyRoutineContemptDestroyingUnlimitedAccuracyIrsShamblesRunning Wild Author:James Bovard
“A poem is an invocation, rebellious return to the blessedness of beginning again, wandering free in pure process of forgetting and finding.” ProcessForgetReturnPureFindingsWanderRebelliousBegin AgainBlessednessInvocation Book:My Emily Dickinson Source: My Emily Dickinson
“The big problem in the long process of dumbing down the schools is that you can reach a point of no return. How are parents who never received a decent education themselves to recognize that their children are not getting a decent education?” ChildrenLongProblemBigsSchoolProcessParentReturnDecentBig ProblemsDumbing Down Author:Thomas Sowell
“God is love and doesn't ask for anything back in return. So it's that process of letting go and just allowing, and just being in that pure state.” StatesAsksProcessReturnPureLetting GoAllowingJust BeingGod Is Love Author:Wayne Dyer
“Replacing it with a thought. I sometimes think, "What the hell. I have four working limbs right now. I'm winning just to even have the privilege of this experience!" Steering my brain onto this track of thought begins the process of being grateful for the lesson and returns my mind to a more peaceful place.” ThinkingMindSometimesWinningProcessBrainHellFourReturnLessonsRight NowGratefulPrivilegeTrackPeacefulBe GratefulLimbsSteeringPeaceful Places Author:Graham Shiels
“Everything in The Room, we did it the same way the big studios do it. The only difference is the budget and the actors. We put an ad in Back Stage West and in return we got almost 8,000 headshots from people who wanted to be in the film. We then do a process of selection and a rehearsal process after they are selected. The process of audition is very time consuming.” PeopleWayBigsWantedFilmActorsProcessDifferencesRoomsStageReturnWestStudiosBudgetsAdsAuditionsSelectionRehearsalConsumingSelectedTime ConsumingHeadshots Author:Tommy Wiseau
“Today, philanthropy is a very unsophisticated, old world process where people who make a shitload of money go and give it away and when they're making their money, they're focused on 10x, 100x returns on the dollar.” PeopleWorldGivingTodayProcessReturnDollarsFocusedPhilanthropyOld World Author:Peter Diamandis
“Magic is a two-way process: you use it to change yourself and in return, it changes you. Letting yourself enter a magical reality is not about creating an enclave of magic beyond your everyday life, but of allowing magic in- allowing for the intrusion of the weird, the irrational, the things you can't explain, yet are undeniably real.” WayTwoRealUseRealityProcessMagicReturnCreatingEverydayAllowingIrrationalEveryday LifeTwo WaysIntrusionChange Yourself Author:Phil Hine
“Let us return back to the peace process for our children and for their children. The peace of the brave which I have signed is my debt, part in our love for [Isaac] Rabin.” ChildrenProcessReturnOur ChildrenBraveDebtOur LoveIsaacReturn Back Author:Yasser Arafat
“In 2000 the then Prime Minister of Japan [Yoshirō Mori] asked me to return to this process, this conversation, these talks, and to do so, incidentally, on the basis of the 1956 declaration. I agreed. Since then we have conducted dialogue in this regard but I cannot say that our Japanese partners and friends have remained within the limits of the 1956 declaration.” ProcessReturnConversationLimitsBasesRegardPartnersDialogueMinistersJapanPrimeDeclarationPrime Minister Author:Vladimir Putin
“Memoir is a unique opportunity to revisit yourself. I don't mean by memory. I mean in the revision process. You don't just write a chapter and that's it. You must constantly return to it. You must dote on it. And even if it's saying something ugly about who you are, you have to find the poetry in it. You have to find the poetry in yourself.” IfsWritingMeanOpportunityProcessMemoriesReturnUniqueWho You AreUglyMemoirChaptersRevisionUnique Opportunities Author:Joshua Mohr
“We have to make some things for ourselves because the conveyer belt from China is doomed (this process is known as import replacement). We have to do transportation differently, because mass motoring and even commercial aviation will soon be over. We have to inhabit the landscape differently because both suburbia and the metroplex mega-city will be obsolete, so we will have to return to a more traditional disposition of things in smaller urbanisms associated with productive agricultural hinterlands.” ProcessCitiesKnownReturnMassChinaTraditionalLandscapeProductiveAviationDoomedDispositionBeltsTransportationObsoleteImportsReplacementsMegaSuburbia Author:James Howard Kunstler
“I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement.” StatesHouseWishProcessReturnConflictCommitmentElectionDemocraticAgreementDemocratic ProcessArmed ConflictLancaster Author:Robert Mugabe