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Book cover for The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker

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Attempts to explain behavior in mechanistic terms are commonly denounced as “reductionist” or “determinist.” The denouncers rarely know exactly what they mean by those words, but everyone knows they refer to something bad.

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“I sympathize afresh with the mighty Voltaire, who, when badgered on his deathbed and urged to renounce the devil, murmured that this was no time to be making enemies.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Mortality

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“(Adlai Stevenson once said to Richard Nixon: “If you stop telling lies about me I’ll stop telling the truth about you.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian

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“Maybe all the strings inside him broke.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

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“قال لي سالم بيه: "أنت تقرأ كثيرا..أنت مجنون!" .. قلت له إن القراءة بالنسبة لي نوع رخيص من المخدرات. لا أفعل بها شيئاً سوى الغياب عن الوعي. في الماضي -تصور هذا- كانوا يقرءون من أجل إكتساب الوعي ! ..”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, يوتوبيا

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“this is what I have been telling writing classes for years. You must feel not that you want to but that you have to.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian

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