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The Selfish Gene

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Even while the group is going slowly and inexorably downhill, selfish individuals prosper in the short term at the expense of altruists. — location: 481 ^ref-36912

Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use, and that the mere presence in the dictionary of a word like ‘living’ does not mean it necessarily has to refer to something definite in the real world. — location: 659 ^ref-27307