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Life is short, and every moment is precious.
Take off your wedding ring prior to swimming!
As an academic, I value the free exchange of ideas.
Empires implode from within due to their own excesses.
A successful marriage requires commitment to teamwork.
I am always on the lookout for new cafes to hang out at.
In the game of life, survival is only part of the battle.
The explanatory power of evolutionary psychology is limitless!
Casting judgments is an integral feature of what makes us human.
To be an outspoken professor in academia is a very dangerous proposition.
World history is shaped both positively and negatively by people who judge.
Trigger warnings are part of the West's debauchery of self-indulgent victimhood.
The seven deadly sins should be updated. We should add an eighth sin: Cowardice.
People's most prized possessions carry deeply symbolic and emotional significance.
For humans, gift giving is a universal ritual laden with evolutionary implications.
No ideology should ever get a pass simply because it is cloaked in a religious robe.
Consumer behaviour is a powerful realm from which to explore our biological heritage.
Most people experience some insecurity regarding one or more of their physical traits.
In the public realm, secularism should not concede a single inch to religious intrusions.
There is nothing offensive about the word 'obese.' It is a descriptor of a person's weight.
There is no gospel of atheism. Atheists don't pray at the altar of a Richard Dawkins poster.
The Ferrari is exactly the same in the human context as the peacock's tail is on the peacock.
While I do not have a sweet tooth, I am a fan of the dark chocolate ice cream at Baskin Robbins.
In some instances, a gender imbalance is indeed a manifestation of sexism. In others, it is not.
Academia is ruled by a pathological herd mentality. Stick out, and be prepared to get ostracized.
The Christmas-New Year's holiday season can be a double-edge sword when it comes to one's mental health.
I contend that the ethos of perpetual non-judgment is intellectually dishonest if not outright cowardly.
The contents of an ideology are not sacrosanct simply because they are couched in the cloak of a religion.
Freedom of religion does not entitle your religion to have a privileged position within the public sphere.
Needless to say, I fully support the legal codes that are meant to protect individuals from discrimination.
Individual freedoms are the primary engine by which the pursuit of happiness can be maximally instantiated.
Few people are as well-situated to speak about the laudable benefits of a humane immigration policy than me.
It is perfectly acceptable in a free and liberal society to criticize, debate, mock, and reject any ideology.
It is not 'dehumanizing' to call someone an illegal immigrant if he/she resides in the host country illegally.
While it is true that all individuals are equal under the law, this hardly implies that they are created equal.
My attachment to my wedding ring is a powerful symbol of the infinite love that I have for my wife and children.
Early in my doctoral training at Cornell University, I became immersed in the behavioral decision theory paradigm.
The right to be able to speak openly and confidentially to another is, at times, codified legally if not ethically.
Any clear-thinking person should be able to engage in nuanced thinking when it comes to complex political positions.
Great leaders are not proverbial fence sitters. They judge. They opine. They challenge. They fight for their vision.
To the uninitiated, the Hasidim constitute a rather homogeneous sect of orthodox Jewry, but this is far from being true.
When a political party denies scientific facts, then by all means, they should be called out on their anti-science stance.
To study consumer behavior is to explore human nature at its most fundamental level using the modern world as its backdrop.
If you are of sound mind and body, many exciting and challenging adventures are within your reach irrespective of your age.
Secular societies establish tolerance by being equally non-accommodating toward all religious demands within the public sphere.
The capacity for humans to come up with ever-increasingly granular in-group versus out-group demarcations is truly breathtaking.
Everyone has the right to practice their religious beliefs in private but expect that people might publicly reject said beliefs.
Across disparate cultures that require physical risk-taking as a rite of passage, it is always the men who engage in such pursuits.
Trigger warnings are an instantiation of the West's zeitgeist of perpetual offense and victimhood that defines much of public discourse.
Western societies in general and universities in particular have not always been immune from institutional sexism. This is incontestable.