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Steven Pinker

“Thomas Jefferson explained the power of language with the help of an analogy: “He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.”30”

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