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"Drink and get drunk with me, Melanippos. Why do you suppose
that when you have crossed great Acheron's
eddying stream you will see the sun's pure light again? "

Alcaeus, "Fragment 38a,"

"A little Learning is a dang'rous Thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring:
There shallow Draughts intoxicate the Brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again."

Alexander Pope, "An Essay on Criticism"

"The problem with rules is
they alienate the criminals when whose to say
if what they did was wrong that day.
If you'd open your mind up
you'd see that there is nothing that's always wrong."

Pedro the Lion, "Nothing"

The petty troika of folk, kin, and trade are genetically driven, and that means they should obey the same rise in genetic factors that Dr. Hibbing has uncovered in his research. Within the context of a particular sex, evidence for genetic correlation of attitudes and beliefs is weak until 20 years of age. After that the relationship increases, until genetics take up 2/3rds of the reason for believing something....