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“Well, first of all, it's not true that nobody had ever heard of me, because I wrote a biography of John Stuart Mill a few years ago—last time I checked, at least 17 people had read it, so that's very rude of you.”
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“It will probably surprise listeners because you're so focused on data and solving practical problems that back in 2007, you wrote a biography of John Stuart Mill, a big thick book that runs to more than 600 pages.”
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“Nick Lane has a book called, "Life Ascending," where he lists the 10 great inventions of evolution, the origin of life being first, and DNA, the hereditary material that encodes the genetic instructions for all living organisms.”
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“The other one that he wrote, which is called Life Ascending, those two books you must read if you don't want to be a letter, in my opinion.”
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“So King Lear versus rules of engagement both of them need to be disassembled and reassembled”