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Philosopher Slavoj Žižek points out several hypocrisies of political correctness while addressing how contemporary totalitarians construct social boundaries to control the population.

Erica Jong, author of the landmark 1973 novel Fear of Flying, describes advice as "what we ask for when we already know the answer, but wish we didn't."

"Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it."

Words of wisdom from Vin Scully, who has been announcing baseball games for 66 years: "Good is not good when better is expected."

Words of wisdom from one of the 20th century's most fascinating polymaths: "The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye ... The hand is the cutting edge of the mind."

Biologist Edward O. Wilson explains how humans came to dominate all other large animals by adopting eusocial behaviors most often associated with insects.

Words of wisdom from Thomas Hardy, English novelist and poet, author of Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

Words of wisdom from Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues: "In order to achieve great things, we must live as though we were never going to die."

"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done."

Words of wisdom from Marie Curie: "One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done."

"It's always better to leave the party early," said Bill Watterson, author of the beloved comic strip "Calvin and Hobbes." Watterson famously chose to end "Calvin and Hobbes" in 1995 after only 10 years of syndication.

"There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words."

"We live in a society absolutely dependent on science and technology and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. That's a clear prescription for disaster."

Global Population Boom: Are People the Problem, the Solution, or Both? Professor Joel Cohen first asks and answers the question, “How did humans grow from small populations on the African […]

Sex may be enjoyable, but in evolutionary terms, it's a very difficult way to reproduce.

The Roman philosopher had the following to say about ability and education: "Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability."

"The mathematician's best work is art, a high perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid. Mathematical genius and artistic genius touch one another."

Sir Richard Francis Burton, famed 19th century explorer, on world religions: "The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself."