Sam Harris Quotes
Human well-being is not a random phenomenon. It depends on many factors - ranging from genetics and neurobiology to sociology and economics. But, clearly, there are scientific truths to be known about how we can flourish in this world. Wherever we can have an impact on the well-being of others, questions of morality apply.
Quotes to Explore
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!
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Incommensurables cannot be compared.
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I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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I think same sex couples should be able to get married.
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My nephew has type 1 diabetes, and it's my goal and hope that in his lifetime there will be a cure for diabetes. There's no place better to give the money to than the Juvenile Diabetes Association.
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The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
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I really don't believe in magic.
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After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.
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All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
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We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
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The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.
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When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.
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I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas.
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All of my marriages lasted seven years.
Elliott Erwitt -
As time passed I became an avid reader of popular scientific books, wanting to know as much as I could about the world in which I lived. Gradually I began to see a pattern of nonsense in much scientific writing. Scientific explanations given regarding the origins or functioning of various phenomena simply didn't make sense.
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I feel like everything is inspired by something else. There is no 100 percent original thought.
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We don't see very far in the future, we are very focused on one idea at a time, one problem at a time, and all these are incompatible with rationality as economic theory assumes it.
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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
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Human well-being is not a random phenomenon. It depends on many factors - ranging from genetics and neurobiology to sociology and economics. But, clearly, there are scientific truths to be known about how we can flourish in this world. Wherever we can have an impact on the well-being of others, questions of morality apply.
