"The more you think about and interact with other people, the more you realize that it is untenable to privilege your interests over theirs."

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Steven Pinker

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Privilege Quotes

“For me, being leftist means fighting against injustice and inequality but, most of all, we want to live well.”
“I'm not that interested in what people make of it, or how people consider me. That's nothing to do with me.”
“Faith, sympathy - fiery faith and fiery sympathy! Life is nothing, death is nothing, hunger nothing, cold nothing. Glory unto the Lord - march on, the Lord is our General. Do not look back to see who falls - forward - onward! Thus and thus we shall go on, brethren. One falls, and another takes up the work”
“I think I gravitate towards characters who are slight outsiders. It's fun to play a character that wants so badly to be included in the normal activities of teenage life, but lacks the literal hardware to do it.”
“We are not our brotherâ€™s keeper we are our brother and we are our sister. We must look past complexion and see community.”
“Goodbyes are not forever Goodbyes aren't final, when You only mean we'll miss you Until we meet again”
“I have the necessary lack of tact.”
“As Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman document in their book Networked, people who are heavily socially active online tend to be also heavily socially active offline; theyâ€™re just, well, social people.”

Source : Clive Thompson (2013). “Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better”, p.127, Penguin

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