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Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.
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By all measures men are the more violent gender.
— Steven Pinker
The realization of the perfect riposte three hours after the argument: hindser, stairwit, retrotort, afterism.
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We're living in primate heaven. We're warm, dry, we're not hungry, we don't have fleas and ticks and infections. So why are we so miserable?
— Steven Pinker
From the 17th to the 19th century, a cult in India strangled tens of thousands of travelers as a sacrifice to the goddess Kali.
— Steven Pinker
Fiction is empathy technology.
— Steven Pinker
People notice differences and expect every difference in form to convey some difference in meaning.
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sarchasm n. The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
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Nothing invests life with more meaning than the realisation that every moment of sentience is a precious gift
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Mitigate and credible and credulous. What this means
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Mother Teresa was the very embodiment of saintliness: white-clad, sad-eyed, ascetic and often photographed with the wretched of the earth.
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A successful learner, ... must be constrained to draw some conclusions from the input and not others.
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Statisticians tell us that people underestimate the sheer number of coincidences that are bound to happen in a world governed by chance.
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The mind is not designed to grasp the laws of probability, even though the laws rule the universe.
— Steven Pinker
Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.
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In our society, the best predictor of a man's wealth is his wife's looks, and the best predictor of a woman's looks is her husband's wealth.
— Steven Pinker
The growth of writing and literacy strikes me as the best candidate for an exogenous change that helped set off the Humanitarian Revolution.
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Most wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conquest, revenge, and ideology.
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I think a lot of moral debates are not over what is the basis of justice, but who gets a ticket to play in the game.
— Steven Pinker
I don't think aggression works like thirst or sleep. I think aggression is more elicited by particular situations. I think it can be mitigated.
— Steven Pinker
As soon as you add an intensifier, you're turning an all-or-none dichotomy into a graduated scale.
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You can't hear a word and just hear it as raw sound; it always evokes an associated meaning and emotion in the brain.
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Journalists assigned to an issue often cover the coverage, creating the notorious media echo chamber.
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As we saw in chapter 3, one way the early modern Europeans used Odyssean self-control was to keep sharp knives out of reach at the dinner table.
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events that occur at random will seem to come in clusters, because it would take a nonrandom process to space them out.
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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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By 1776 the American revolutionaries had defined "despotism" down to the level of taxing tea and quartering soldiers. At
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The historical trajectory of violence affects not only how life is lived but how it is understood.
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Smarter people tend to think more like economists
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Part of the bargain of being alive is that one takes a chance at dying a premature or painful death, be it from violence, accident, or disease.
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