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Iain Mcgilchrist quotes

In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.

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The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete.

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The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.

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The genome was once thought to be just the blueprint for a living organism, like a combination of the architect's plan for a building and the builder's list of supplies. It specified the parts, the building blocks, and, somehow, the design of the whole, the way in which they are to be put together.

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