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Human rights, logic, progress and the very idea of an independent self are all children of the written word.
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What Cal Newport actually said
- Cal Newport Computer science professor at Georgetown and author of Deep Work
essentially every cultural attribute that we celebrate – from human rights, to logic, to progress, to the very notion of an independent self – are conceptual children born from the mind-shaping power of the written word.
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↗Why Reading Matterscalnewport.com
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