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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Mar 3

    “‘Enlightenment Now’ strikes me as an excellent book, lucidly written, timely, rich in data and eloquent in its championing of a rational humanism that is — it turns out — really quite cool.” Sarah Bakewell, NY Times Book Review.https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/02/books/review/steven-pinker-enlightenment-now.html …

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      1. BldyTpcl #FBPE‏ @BldyTpcl Mar 3
        Replying to @sapinker

        But please don't buy it from Amazon, which still has given no response to its many customers' requests to #DropNRA products and NRATV

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      2. Brian Zack‏ @BrianZack1 Mar 3
        Replying to @sapinker

        Prof. Pinker, I agree with most of your views in @nytimesbooks, but your ignorance of Nietzsche is more than embarrassing. He was passionately against everything you blame him for, and passionately for human flourishing. Please take a Nietzsche course! (Seriously.) @sapinker

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      1. Syed Iqbal simnani‏ @SimnaniIqbals Mar 3
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        Refer my last tweet. Pinker day dreaming on a beach .....😏 Since Putin and Lockheed Martin were not central to my argument, I ignored them as 2 data points irrelevant to my analysis- it might have come in the way of a bestseller book topic, why take chances😏😏. Pinker wakes up.

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      1. John Lobell‏ @JohnLobell Mar 5
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        Reading it (actually listening to the audio version) right now. Long overdue. Notice this is a positive review from the NYTs. They also did a negative review. Must keep to their politically correct line and ignore the facts.

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      1. Testosterone & Civilization‏ @TestosteroneCiv Mar 3
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        https://testosteronecivilization.com/sex-is-the-driver-of-all-cultural-and-political-conflict/ …

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      1. Aquinas Sequential‏ @Biogeneticflame Mar 3
        Replying to @sapinker

        I tweet about how good my book is, because I'm not human. Derrrr derrrpppp.

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      1. John Kluge‏ @klugesan Mar 3
        Replying to @sapinker

        Just picked up a copy @NewDominionBook in Cville and am looking forward to a much needed injection of optimistic humanism.

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      1. Wexler Smith‏ @WexlerSmith Mar 3
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        Wonderful lecture in Philadelphia Thursday! Thank you.

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      1. Syed Iqbal simnani‏ @SimnaniIqbals Mar 3
        Replying to @sapinker

        Refer my last tweets. On a serious note. Have great respect for your scholarship. But pls remember 2 quotes. 1. “In the end the lies we tell ourselves are the most damaging”. 2. “God protect me from my own biases”. Applies to all intellectuals.

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      1. ADRIAN RAINBOW‏ @WAFFLEUPPAGUS Mar 3
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        Unless you introduce a vacuum, the glass is always full.

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      1. Maarten‏ @meertnnn Mar 3
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        Would argue that the glass is even fuller. Love the book so far!

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      1. Syed Iqbal simnani‏ @SimnaniIqbals Mar 3
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        Refer my last tweet 😏 As usual clever enlightened human tools removed my dilemma; a gracious superhuman bot offered a solution : it decided to issue a simple command to kill 3 “doubtfull‘ enlightened persons - Putin, Lockheed Martin CEO and the Shiekh without a trace of guilt😏

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      1. Syed Iqbal simnani‏ @SimnaniIqbals Mar 3
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        Refer my last tweet...😏 In the evening I had an heart attack from an enlightenment orgasm - as I was not able to decide who was more enlightened: Putin, Lockheed Martin CEO, or a rich Saudi Sheikh in his BMW transferring funds online to an Islamic terrorist network in Europe🤔

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