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  “Each of you possesses the most powerful, dangerous and subversive trait that natural selection has ever devised. It’s a piece of neural audio technology for rewiring other people’s minds. I’m talking about your language.” — Mark Pagel

  Mark Pagel: How language transformed humanity

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  “[Language allows you] to implant a thought from your mind directly into someone else’s mind, and they can attempt to do the same to you, without either of you having to perform surgery.” — Mark Pagel

  Mark Pagel: How language transformed humanity

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  “It might be inevitable that we have to confront the idea that our destiny is to be one world with one language.” — Mark Pagel

  Mark Pagel: How language transformed humanity

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