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Conventions are unstated agreements within a community to abide by a single way of doing things - not because there is any inherent advantage to the choice, but because there is an advantage to everyone making the same choice.
Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker
Born: Sep 18, 1954

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