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The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing.
Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker
Born: Sep 18, 1954

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Compassion, Living, Another, Reflex, Human, Automatically, Human Capacity, Capacity, Thing, Presence, Living Thing

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