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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I'm younger than Rod Stewart and Bruce Springsteen, but I'm still getting up there in age.
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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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After moving to California, I decided to go back to school and get an education on various aspects of the entertainment industry.
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I was in Congress for six months, and they put me on blood pressure medication. I flew helicopters in combat and I was fine, and I survived 13 months in recovery in the hospital... I got to Congress, and six months later I'm on blood pressure medication. Fourteen months later, they doubled the dosage!
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I don't want a few extra weeks of life at enormous cost, for example, when it comes to the end.
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My Helmut Lang leather pants are my most treasured possession - I've worn them almost every day for two years, and they look good with everything.
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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.
