> Then give them both the lie.
>
> —["The Lie"](https://www.bartleby.com/40/48.html) by Sir Walter Raleigh
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+> Do not at the outset of your career make the all too common error of mistaking names for things. Names are only conventional signs for identifying things. Things are the reality that counts. If a thing is despised, either because of ignorance or because it is despicable, you will not alter matters by changing its name.
+>
+> —W. E. B. duBois (http://www.virginia.edu/woodson/courses/aas102%20%28spring%2001%29/articles/names/dubois.htm)
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+> "Any evolutionary advantage must come from a feature affecting our behavior. Thus, there is no evolutionary advantage to simply having a belief about our identity. Self-identity can matter and could have mattered only if it affects behavior, in which case it is really a _process_ of self-identification. Moreover, it is not a matter of affirming a self-identity that we possess. For a belief that needs to be affirmed is not a belief at all."
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+> Joseph M. Whitmeyer, "How Evolutionary Psychology Can Contribute to Group Process Research", in <em>The Oxford Handbook of Evolution, Biology, and Society</em>
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+> Stuck, in the middle of fear and shame
+> Everybody's looking for someone to blame
+> Like it's a game, like it's a game
+>
+> And now, I am better than win or lose
+> There's a new direction that I like to choose
+> It's called the truth, it's called the truth
+>
+> —"True Kinda Love"
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+> In general, our society less and less encourages looking sexually attractive to other people and more and more encourages acting out inner fantasies that are unattractive to others to make yourself even more of a victim of society.
+>
+> —[Steve Sailer](http://www.unz.com/isteve/the-woke-war-on-homosexuals/)
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