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Needs Quotes by Steven Pinker
- Babies are born with the instinct to speak, the way spiders are born with the instinct to spin webs. You don't need to train babies…
- Gossip is certainly one of the things that language is useful for, because it's always handy to know who needs a favor, who can offer…
- Commerce, trade and exchange make other people more valuable alive than dead, and mean that people try to anticipate what the other guy needs and…
- Words let us say the things we want to say and also things we would be better off not having said. They let us know…
- The foundation of individual rights is the assumption that people have wants and needs and are authorities on what those wants and needs are. If…
- Some people think that evolutionary psychology claims to have discovered that human nature is selfish and wicked. But they are flattering the researchers and anyone…
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