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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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“If you have ever argued with a religious devotee, for example, you will have noticed that his self-esteem and pride are involved in the dispute and that you are asking him to give up something more than a point in argument.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian

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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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“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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“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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“For he was aware of the great secret of life: Women don't look for handsome men. Women look for men who have had beautiful women. Having an ugly mistress is therefore a fatal mistake.”
― Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

tags: beauty, love, mistress, relationship, ugly, women

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