Sam Harris Quotes
Speaking from personal experience, I think that losing the sense of free will has only improved my ethics - by increasing my feelings of compassion and forgiveness, and diminishing my sense of entitlement to the fruits of my own good luck.
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It is a growing process. You can't just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the different flavors.
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I've been searching for ways to heal myself, and I've found that kindness is the best way.
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Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
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I don't believe in strong-arming people.
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Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.
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I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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I always make a decision, even if it's the wrong one. I hate being confused.
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I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
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When my body feels good, I feel more energized and alive, and that's sexy. I'm taking care of this body God gave me.
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I moved to Spain, and at all the tournaments I'd play, I would be really good in my age. That made me realize that I could be a pro.
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I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny.
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The idea that in the system, if you manage it in an optimum way, all of the constituent parts of the system also win, flourish, and benefit, is intrinsic to business and even to capitalism itself, properly understood. But people don't understand it because we're not taught to think that way.
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Increase your faith. Proclaim your faith. Let your faith show.
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I never wanted a traditional lifestyle. I'm not that kind of person.
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Speaking from personal experience, I think that losing the sense of free will has only improved my ethics - by increasing my feelings of compassion and forgiveness, and diminishing my sense of entitlement to the fruits of my own good luck.
