Geoffrey Miller Quotes

#1. Our responsibility is not to speculate endlessly about the possible futures of our daughter species, but to become, with as much panache as we can afford, their ancestors.

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#2. Thus, all ads effectively have two audiences: potential product buyers, and potential product viewers who will credit the product owners with various desirable traits.

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#3. If you don't have the willpower to stop eating carbs, you won't have the willpower to do a dissertation. #truth.

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#4. The rich covet the new iPod not for the sounds it can make in their heads, but for the impressions it can make in the heads of others.

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#5. These capacities for randomness may have been amplified into human creativity through sexual and social selection.

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#6. If most of your courtship attempts have succeeded, you must be a very attractive and charming person who has been aiming too low.

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#7. The ad does not say "Buy this!"; it says, "Be assured that if you buy and display this product, others are being well trained to feel ugly and inferior in your presence, just as you feel ugly and inferior compared with this goddess.

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#8. Consumerism is hard to describe when it's the ocean and we're the plankton.

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#9. capitalism is not "materialistic," but "semiotic." It concerns mainly the psychological world of signs, symbols, images, and brands,

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