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Steven Pinker

"As technology accumulates and people in more parts of the planet become interdependent, the hatred between them tends to decrease, for the simple reason that you can't kill someone and trade with him too."

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"As technology accumulates and people in more parts of the planet become interdependent, the hatred between them tends to decrease, for the simple reason that you can't kill someone and trade with him too."

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"By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu."
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"Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language."
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"But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses."
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"I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor."
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"Why do people believe that there are dangerous implications of the idea that the mind is a product of the brain, that the brain is organized in part by the genome, and that the genome was shaped by natural selection?"
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"Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage?"
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"Personality and socialization aren't the same thing."
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"As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones."
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"I don't consider myself to be that radical a thinker."
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"The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero."

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"We must stop expecting the government to play the role of national transformation why we sit down and watch."

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"The public thinks big, sensible, measured thoughts while people run around doing silly things."

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"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly, the rich have always objected to being governed at all."

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"It takes all sorts of people to make a world, as I've often heard, but I think there are some who could be spared,' Anne told her reflection in the east gable mirror that night."

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"In too many instances we have settled for a world of our own shaping that is shaping up to be in terrible shape."

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"Nobody's sane above the law."

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"Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home."

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