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In the course of writing that book and studying the long history of civility and religious tolerance in the 17th century, I came to discover that there is a virtue of civility, and far from being bullshit, it's actually absolutely essential, especially for tolerant societies, so societies like this one, that promise not only to protect diversity but also the heated and sometimes even hateful disagreements that that diversity inspires.

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This was a long delay.

And the man said, "He's come down a long way, hasn't he?" (Laughter) (Applause) There's been kind of a series of epiphanies.

The history of attempts to tinker with the function of the nervous system is long and illustrious.

And we've come a long way since Galvani's and Susana's first successes in making animals twitch or jump.

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