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Between Quotes by Steven Pinker
- As technology accumulates and people in more parts of the planet become interdependent, the hatred between them tends to decrease, for the simple reason that…
- Dominance in an adaptation to anarchy and it serves no purpose in a society that has undergone a civilising process or in an international system…
- In the speech sound wave, one word runs into the next seamlessly; there are no little silences between spoken words the way there are white…
- Democracy is an imperfect way of steering between the violence of anarchy and the violence of tyranny, with the least violence you can get away…
- 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…
- As a graduate student, I wrote a long paper connecting the dots between mathematical models of learning and language development in children. It was published…
- I spent 20 years doing research on regular and irregular verbs, not because I'm an obsessive language lover but because it seemed to me that…
- 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…
- The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and…
- Though knowledge itself increasingly ignores boundaries between fields, professors are apt to organize their pedagogy around the methods and history of their academic subculture rather…
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- That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed… — Timothy Garton Ash
- I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when… — Margaret Atwood
- You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them. — David Attenborough
- If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if… — Margaret Atwood
- It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. — Diane Ackerman
- I do support a constitutional amendment on marriage between a man and a woman, but I would not be going into the… — Michele Bachmann
- Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the… — Honore de Balzac
- There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I… — Drew Barrymore