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"If you like the "rule of law" or have ever use the term in your sentence, then this book is for you.The rule of law is more an assumption rather than a clear statement of what it is really.
Tom Bingham, being a judge for so many years, use his expert...more "
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"I just found this on Stephen Pinker's blog Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books
This is interesting. And kind of related to how human use language.
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Language is not purely a learned thing, as Skinner predicted...more "
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“The Rights Revolutions too have given us ideals that educated people today take for granted but that are virtually unprecedented in human history, such as that people of all races and creeds have equal rights, that women should be free from all forms of coercion, that children should never, ever be spanked, that students should be protected from bullying, and that there’s nothing wrong with being gay. I don’t find it at all implausible that these are gifts, in part, of a refined and widening application of reason.”
― Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
― Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
“The only people who should be allowed to govern countries with nuclear weapons are mothers, those who are still breast-feeding their babies.”
― Tsutomu Yamaguchi
― Tsutomu Yamaguchi
“Perhaps the most extraordinary popular delusion about violence of the past quarter-century is that it is caused by low self-esteem. That theory has been endorsed by dozens of prominent experts, has inspired school programs designed to get kids to feel better about themselves, and in the late 1980s led the California legislature to form a Task Force to Promote Self-Esteem. Yet Baumeister has shown that the theory could not be more spectacularly, hilariously, achingly wrong. Violence is a problem not of too little self-esteem but of too much, particularly when it is unearned.”
― Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
― Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
“Nobody has the right to not be offended. That right doesn't exist in any declaration I have ever read.
If you are offended it is your problem, and frankly lots of things offend lots of people.
I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.
To read a 600-page novel and then say that it has deeply offended you: well, you have done a lot of work to be offended.”
― Salman Rushdie
If you are offended it is your problem, and frankly lots of things offend lots of people.
I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.
To read a 600-page novel and then say that it has deeply offended you: well, you have done a lot of work to be offended.”
― Salman Rushdie
“Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is a man's original virtue.”
― Oscar Wilde
― Oscar Wilde
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