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<div style="padding-left:40px;">— Ken Follet: The Third Twin<ref name="Follet1996">{{cite book |title=The Third Twin |author=Ken Follett |publisher=Crown Publishers |place=New York |date=30 October, 2019 |pages= |isbn=978-0-517-70296-3 |url=https://ken-follett.com/bibliography/the_third_twin/ |quote=Ken’s view Steve, the hero of The Third Twin, is troubled when he finds he has an identical twin who is a murderer. He's led to examine himself and he worries that he is like his brother. He asks, “do my genes make me what I am? Or is it my upbringing and my environment?” He comes to the conclusion that, in the end, he himself is responsible for what he is. That isn’t really a philosophical answer, but it is a personal answer, and it is one that I believe in. I don’t think that after about the age of 25 you can carry on blaming either your parents or your DNA for anything that you do. My readers don’t buy my books to learn about philosophy, of course, but they like a story to have a thoughtful side.}}</ref></div>
<div style="padding-left:40px;">— Ken Follet: The Third Twin<ref name="Follet1996">{{cite book |title=The Third Twin |author=Ken Follett |publisher=Crown Publishers |place=New York |date=30 October, 2019 |pages= |isbn=978-0-517-70296-3 |url=https://ken-follett.com/bibliography/the_third_twin/ |quote=Ken’s view Steve, the hero of The Third Twin, is troubled when he finds he has an identical twin who is a murderer. He's led to examine himself and he worries that he is like his brother. He asks, “do my genes make me what I am? Or is it my upbringing and my environment?” He comes to the conclusion that, in the end, he himself is responsible for what he is. That isn’t really a philosophical answer, but it is a personal answer, and it is one that I believe in. I don’t think that after about the age of 25 you can carry on blaming either your parents or your DNA for anything that you do. My readers don’t buy my books to learn about philosophy, of course, but they like a story to have a thoughtful side.}}</ref></div>
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| style="padding:15px;" |''«Everyone has at least a 10% genetic influence in their behavior— because without genes there can be no human behavior of any kind.»''
<div style="padding-left:40px;">— NE and BK Whitehead: My Genes Made Me Do It!<ref name="Whitehead2020">{{cite book |title= My Genes Made Me Do It!: Homosexuality and the Scientific Evidence |author= N. Whitehead, Briar Whitehead |publisher=Whitehead Associates |place= New Zealand |year=2020 |edition=6 |pages= |isbn=978-0-473-17486-6 |url=https://www.mygenes.co.nz/summary.html |quote= Everyone has at least a 10% genetic influence in their behavior— because without genes there can be no human behavior of any kind. Twin studies show that individualistic reactions to chance events (in which one identical twin reacts differently from the other) are by far the strongest contributors to homosexuality. In other words personal individual reactions to random events are a strong factor.}}</ref></div>
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[[Stoic]] [[philosopher]]s such as [[Epictetus]] placed great emphasis on [[self-control]] – and, therefore, they rejected the idea that ''emotion'' may have any worth in deciding whether an ''action'' or ''goal'' is worthy.<ref>{{cite book |title=Manual on the art of living |author=Epictetus (Introduction by Kristan K. Husby) |translator=P.E. Matheson |publisher=AIORA Press |place=Athens, Greece |year=2017 |chapter=Introduction |pages=15 |isbn=978-618-5048-70-9 |quote=}}</ref>
[[Stoic]] [[philosopher]]s such as [[Epictetus]] placed great emphasis on [[self-control]] – and, therefore, they rejected the idea that ''emotion'' may have any worth in deciding whether an ''action'' or ''goal'' is worthy.<ref>{{cite book |title=Manual on the art of living |author=Epictetus (Introduction by Kristan K. Husby) |translator=P.E. Matheson |publisher=AIORA Press |place=Athens, Greece |year=2017 |chapter=Introduction |pages=15 |isbn=978-618-5048-70-9 |quote=}}</ref>