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"I don't consider myself to be that radical a thinker."
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"I want to be radical on the inside, but not on the outside."
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"Because the world is radically new, the ideal encyclopedia should be radical, too."
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"I think Dilbert is actually a radical strip."
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"By the time I came down from Yale, I was already more radicalized and had begun to read New Masses."
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"I don't consider myself to be that radical a thinker."
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"As you can imagine I'm disappointed as anything that I was not selected to be the presidential running mate. And I find it continually appalling that it would be a radical thing to have a woman on the ticket."
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"I went over to say hi to Rob and he introduced me to Wayne and Fred. I had made a radical purchase of some brown Beatle boots. Wayne was like 'Where did you get those boots! Who is this guy?"
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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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"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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"Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate."
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"People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven't given much thought to the connections."
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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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"So no, it's not all in the genes, but what isn't in the genes isn't in the family environment either. It can't be explained in terms of the overall personalities or the child-rearing practices of parents."
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"Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture."
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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 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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