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Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker

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History shows that when we sympathize with others and apply our ingenuity to improving the human condition, we can make progress in doing so,

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“The idea of most use to tyrants is that of God,”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

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“Humanity has but three great enemies: fever, famine, and war; of these by far the greatest, by far the most terrible, is fever.” Osler”
― Paul McEuen, Spiral

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“One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.”
― James Joyce, Dubliners

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“A jury of inquest was impaneled, and after due deliberation and inquiry they returned the inevitable American verdict which has been so familiar to our ears all the days of our lives—"NOBODY TO BLAME.”
― Mark Twain, The Collected Works of Mark Twain: The Complete & Unabridged Novels

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“Scratch a guy who always talks about what a winner he is or how he’s “self-made” or how he’s pulled himself up by the bootstraps, and underneath you’ll always find a little boy who had everything handed to him.”
― Harlan Coben, Home

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