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Plato, Kant, Twain, Shakespeare and Yogi Berra crop up repeatedly.So does Woody Allen, whose winning line "I told him to be fruitful andmultiply, but not in those words" beautifully distils Mr Pinker's point that,when something unpleasant happens to us, our conversation "turns abruptly tosexuality, excretion or religion".

书中反复提到了柏拉图、康德、马克·吐温、莎士比亚、约吉·贝拉等人，伍迪·阿伦也在其列，他那句令人折服的&我是要让他繁衍不息，但话可不能那么说&极好地展现了平克观点精华之所在，那就是当我们遭遇不幸时，我们的话题就会&突然转移到性行为、排泄物或者宗教上来。&

I'm strongly against the death penalty — it's an eye for an eye.

我不赞成死刑——这是以牙还牙的报复行为。

And to get you the support you need, we're enlisting all elements of our national power: our diplomacy and development, our economic might and our moral suasion, so that you and the rest of our military do not bear the burden of our security alone.

并给你们所须的支援，我们正徵召国家所有各种的力量：我们的外交及发展，我们的经济力量与道德劝说，所以你们与其他军人不须要孤独地负起国家安全的责任。