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One of the things that people complain about is loneliness, disconnectedness. If you live in a society where your life is rarely threatened and most of your relationships are more on an economic exchange basis, then this could leave people feeling less connected.
~ Steven Pinker
About
Basis
Complain
Connected
Could
Economic
Exchange
Feeling
Leave
Less
Life
Live
Loneliness
More
Most
One Of The Things
People
Rarely
Relationships
Society
Then
Things
Threatened
Where
You
Your
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Paris Hilton, it turns out, is related to fellow celebrity jailbirds Zsa Zsa Gabor and G. Gordon Liddy.
~ Steven Pinker
Celebrity
Fellow
Gordon
Hilton
Out
Paris
Paris Hilton
Related
Turns
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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.
~ Steven Pinker
Accident
Alive
Bargain
Being
Chance
Death
Disease
Dying
Painful
Part
Premature
Takes
Violence
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People are under the impression that dictionaries legislate language. What a dictionary does is keep track of usages over time.
~ Steven Pinker
Dictionaries
Dictionary
Does
Impression
Keep
Language
Legislate
Over
People
Time
Track
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People have long assumed that violence is necessary for political change. Rulers never cede power voluntarily, the argument goes, so progressives have no choice but to contemplate the use of force to bring about a better world, mindful of the trade-off between a small amount of violence now and acceptance of an unjust status quo indefinitely.
~ Steven Pinker
About
Acceptance
Amount
Argument
Assumed
Better
Better World
Between
Bring
Change
Choice
Contemplate
Force
Goes
Indefinitely
Long
Mindful
Necessary
Never
No Choice
Now
People
Political
Power
Progressives
Quo
Rulers
Small
Status
Status Quo
Trade-Off
Unjust
Use
Violence
Voluntarily
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People know there is a difference between what you do and what you accept. There is a difference between me knowing that people swear, me hearing people swear and me swearing, and everyone accepting that this is something you can do as much as you like.
~ Steven Pinker
Accept
Accepting
Between
Difference
Everyone
Hearing
Know
Knowing
Like
Me
Much
People
Something
Swear
Swearing
You
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Photography is a demanding action sport. The light can change so quickly. I often find myself sprinting so that I can catch the perfect light falling on a photogenic subject.
~ Steven Pinker
Action
Catch
Change
Demanding
Falling
Find
I Can
Light
Myself
Often
Perfect
Photography
Quickly
Sport
Sprinting
Subject
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Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world.
~ Steven Pinker
Being
Create
Helps
Illusion
Interesting
Kind
Photography
Reality
Virtual
Virtual Reality
World
You
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Plants can't very well defend themselves by their behavior, so they resort to chemical warfare, and plants are saturated with toxins and irritants to deter creatures like us who want to eat them.
~ Steven Pinker
Behavior
Chemical
Creatures
Defend
Deter
Eat
Like
Plants
Resort
Saturated
Them
Themselves
Us
Very
Want
Warfare
Well
Who
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Pre-state societies were far more violent than our own.
~ Steven Pinker
Far
More
Our
Own
Societies
Than
Violent
Were
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Probably Hobbes got it right when he said that a leviathan, a third party with a monopoly on the use of legitimate use of force in a territory, might be among the biggest violence reduction techniques ever invented.
~ Steven Pinker
Among
Biggest
Ever
Force
Got
He
Invented
Legitimate
Might
Monopoly
Party
Reduction
Right
Said
Techniques
Territory
Third
Use
Violence
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Racism, because it favors color over talent, is bad for business.
~ Steven Pinker
Bad
Because
Business
Color
Favors
Over
Racism
Talent
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Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's vantage point.
~ Steven Pinker
Else
Head
Observing
Person
Point
Reading
Someone
Technology
Thoughts
Vantage
Vantage Point
World
You
Your
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Regardless of its causes, thoughtlessly blaming the present is a weakness which, even if it is never outlawed, ought to be resisted. Though commonly flaunted as a sign of sophistication, it can be an opportunity for one-upmanship and an excuse for misanthropy, especially against the young.
~ Steven Pinker
Against
Blaming
Causes
Commonly
Even
Excuse
Never
Opportunity
Ought
Present
Regardless
Resisted
Sign
Sophistication
Though
Weakness
Which
Young
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Roads, better harnesses for horses, time-keeping devices, financial instruments like a currency that was recognized everywhere in the kingdom, enforceable contracts - all of this made commerce more appealing than plunder.
~ Steven Pinker
Appealing
Better
Commerce
Contracts
Currency
Devices
Everywhere
Financial
Horses
Instruments
Kingdom
Like
Made
More
Plunder
Recognized
Roads
Than
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Semantics is about the relation of words to thoughts, but it also about the relation of words to other human concerns. Semantics is about the relation of words to reality - the way that speakers commit themselves to a shared understanding of the truth, and the way their thoughts are anchored to things and situations in the world.
~ Steven Pinker
About
Also
Anchored
Commit
Concerns
Human
Other
Reality
Relation
Semantics
Shared
Situations
Speakers
Themselves
Things
Thoughts
Truth
Understanding
Way
Words
World
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Societies that empower women are less violent in every way.
~ Steven Pinker
Empower
Every
Less
Societies
Violent
Way
Women
Women Are
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Some people believe that the nuclear bomb should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, since it scared the major powers away from war by equating it with doomsday.
~ Steven Pinker
Awarded
Away
Believe
Bomb
Doomsday
Major
Nobel
Nobel Peace Prize
Nuclear
Nuclear Bomb
Peace
People
Powers
Prize
Scared
Should
Since
Some
Some People
War
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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.
~ Steven Pinker
Bound
Chance
Coincidences
Governed
Happen
Number
People
Sheer
Tell
Underestimate
Us
World
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Students do everything on laptops these days, so I definitely think electronic books are a trend that's going to expand.
~ Steven Pinker
Books
Days
Definitely
Electronic
Everything
Expand
Going
Laptops
Students
Think
Trend
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