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Over tens and hundreds of thousands of years, we evolved to find certain things stimulating, and as very intelligent, civilized beings, we're enormously stimulated by problem solving and learning.


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TOM SHALES The simplest way to prepare Dungeness crabs is to boil them in the shell and set them in front of yo...
TOM DOUGLAS The argument on the other side of special rights is completely bogus. It's bogus because you cou...
TOM ALLEN It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.
TOM STOPPARD Then about 12 years ago it dawned on me that folk music - the music of Woody Guthrie and Phil Ochs, ...
TOM MORELLO There's a different kind of comfort that comes from knowing that you are putting your best foot ...
TOM FORD