There is perceived sexual availability of a woman who allows a man to buy her drinks.

"There's ample evidence that people frequently fail to ask for aid to avoid feeling socially indebted."

"Everyday favors lose their obligating powers as time passes. ....recipients of favors feel most indebted to a favour-doer before the act is completed."

"I and the public know / what every schoolboy learns / Those to whom evil is done / do evil in return." W.H. Auden's famous line of poetry.

The tendency of males to be bamboozled by powerful mating signals extends beyond fireflies.

..."because...just because" response of children asked to explain their actions comes from their shrewd recognition of the unusual amount of power adults assign the word because-because it implies a reason, and people want reasons to act."

"But notice something telling: our modern era, often termed the Information Age, has never been called the Knowledge Age. Information does not translate directly into knowledge. It must first be processed - accessed, absorbed, comprehended, integrated, and retained."

In the field of Physics, knowledge is said to double every eight years.

John Stuart Mill, the British economist, political thinker, and philosopher of science reputed to have been the last man to know everything there was to know in the world.

For the so much too big coat, secret would be to wear it unbuttoned while keeping one hand in the pocket.

Nights would not get worse than when you'd roll a jacket round the shoes for a pillow.

‘Thou are that’, is an old Sanskrit aphorism. They are we, and it is we who must change.

"When you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs some of the others. You discover boredom and mean complications and the beginnings of hunger, but you also discover the great redeeming feature of poverty: the fact that it annihilates the future."

Poverty tangles you in a net of lies, and even with lies you can hardly manage it.

Poverty frees some people from ordinary standards of behavior, just as money frees people from work.

When we focus on something, we immediately come to see it as more significant to us. Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman labeled the phenomenon "the focusing illusion." See his paper, "Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about (focusing on) it."

We can handle the Darwinian pressures by building unity. The catchphrase should be, "May their force be with you."

"Scientific analysis shows that we have decisively more genetic overlap with those with whom we have family, friendship, local, political, and religious ties."

"We Are the World" We are waves of the same sea, leaves of the same tree, flowers of the same garden. (That's true Seneca). There is also an equally opposing truth that Darwinian pressures push groups to compete with other contenders for viability and ascendency. Equally, the experience of threat shunts us toward rivalry and separation.