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 http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit/
 
-> A woman came up to me and said  
-> "I'd like to poison your mind  
-> With wrong ideas that appeal to you  
-> Though I am not unkind"
+> Here's to those who love not too wisely, no, not too wisely, but too well  
+> To the girl who sighs with envy when she hears that wedding bell  
+> To the guy who'd throw a party if he knew someone to call  
+> Here's to the losers, bless them all
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-> —"Whistling in the Dark" by They Might Be Giants
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+> —"Here's to the Losers"
+
+> This book is about the female primates who have evolved over the last seventy million years. It is dedicated to the liberated woman who never evolved but with imagination, intelligence, an open mind, and perserverance many of us may yet become.
+>
+> —Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, dedication to _The Woman That Never Evolved_
+
+> Given that females prefer to live with female relatives if they are going to live in groups at all, and given that the size and dispersion of these groups is determined by the interaction of food availability and predation risk, how should males map themselves onto the female distribution?
+>
+> Robin I. M. Dunbar, Primate Social Systems, Ch. 7, "Evolution of Grouping Patterns"