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“Women seem to have almost unlimited capacity for forgiveness. (Since it is usually a man who needs forgiveness, this must be a racial survival trait.”

Men Needs Seems Survival Capacity Traits Unlimited

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“Nostalgia is also a trait of the organizations that I call lodges - everything from corporate cultures to religious sects. Their bonding power often exceeds loyalty to family or country because they create intimacy through shared ideals and beliefs, ceremonies, stories, and legends, and depend on it for their survival. The message is clear: Don't question what we're doing. Just appreciate how long we've been doing it.”

Source: Thinking In The Future Tense

“Different groups in different areas developed different traits to assure their survival.”

Different Groups Survival Areas Traits

Author:Jim Goad

“I think it was something I inherited from my mother, who learned to do it. You know, I, like a baby duckling, was merely mimicking the survival traits that my mother possessed. And I came to learn very quickly that language was a powerful, powerful tool.”

Thinking Knows Mother Language Powerful Baby Survival Tools Traits Possessed Mimicking Ducklings

Author:Trevor Noah

“We are creatures. We have a link with a native habitat just like every other species. Throughout most of human history, physical activity was unavoidable, calories were scarce and hard to get. In the modern era, calories are unavoidable, physical activity is scare and hard to get. The traits that allowed our ancestors to survive, and let's face it, the survival of our ancestors is the reason that we're here because the people who don't survive and make very crummy ancestors, are our traits. But they're very much at odds with the modern environment.”

People Reason Environment Modern Survival Native Scare Ancestor Traits

Author:David Katz

“Paranoia is a survival trait when you run in my circles. It gives you something to do in your spare time, coming up with solutions to ridiculous problems that aren't ever going to happen. Except when one of them does, at which point you feel way too vindicated. - Harry Dresden, Changes, Jim Butcher”

Way Giving Feels Doe Problem Happens Running Survival Solutions Ridiculous Circles Traits Spares Paranoia Butchers Dresden Harry Dresden Spare Time Vindicated

Book:The Dresden Files Collection 7-12

Source: The Dresden Files Collection 7-12

“The selective voluntary blindness of human beings allows them to ignore the moral consequences of their choices. It has been one of the species' most valuable traits, in terms of the survival of any particular human community.”

Humans Has Beens Choices Term Community Human Beings Moral Particular Survival Consequence Species Valuable Traits Blindness Selective

Author:Orson Scott Card

“The fact that we are born with the potential to go from simple survival to God-consciousness is the remarkable trait that sets our nervous systems apart from all other creatures. How to Know God.”

Knows Facts Born Simple Consciousness Creatures Survival Nervous Remarkable Traits Knowing God Nervous System

Book:How to Know God: The Soul's Journey Into the Mystery of Mysteries

Source: How to Know God: The Soul's Journey Into the Mystery of Mysteries

“Modern Darwinism makes it abundantly clear that many less ruthless traits, some not always admired by robber barons and Fuhrers - altruism, general intelligence, compassion - may be the key to survival.”

Life May Compassion Clear Modern Keys Survival Traits Altruism Ruthless Robbers Darwinism Robber Baron

Author:Carl Sagan