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by أسامة عبد الرؤف الشاذلي (Goodreads Author)

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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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“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.”
― Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

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“If we’re going to be friends with benefits, I want private health and dental.” Dear”
― Dan Ariely, Behavioural Economics Saved My Dog: Life Advice For The Imperfect Human

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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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“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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“(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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