In the best traditions of his profession he enlightened and engaged readers on a wide array of topics in clear, vivid prose.

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By keeping a narrow focus on what he believed was doable, even though naysayers told him it would never pass, and by asking abolitionists to tone down their demands, he demonstrated enlightened self-interest.

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Inside he will find a paradox: an institution as complex as a civilisation, both more enlightened and benighted than he imagines.

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May he turn out to be more enlightened than some of the early omens suggest.

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Enlightened self-interest, he believes, should help in making people want to make his ideas work.

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After Johnson explains all about information misconsumption, epistemic loops and agnotology, he devotes part two of the book to delivering enlightened diet tips.

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"It is paradoxical that Europeans see themselves as the most enlightened policy makers in the world, " he added.

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But he was by then being backed and managed by McLaren, who took a wonderfully enlightened long term view of their protege's career.

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He is ambitiously hopeful and hopefully ambitious and to talk with him is to be enlivened and enlightened.

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