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We are visual creatures. Visual things stay put, whereas sounds fade.

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Steven Pinker
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 18
Anthropologist
Linguist
Non-Fiction Writer
Philosopher
Psychologist
University Teacher
Montreal
Quebec
Steven Arthur Pinker
Things
Fades
Visuals
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Sounds
Creatures
Stay
Sound
Fade

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