Jonathan Haidt Quotes
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I've started doing my Kathak, and I rehearse every day. Also, I'm eating right and keeping in shape. I'm a non-smoker and non-drinker and essentially a happy person. That's what counts the most. Your well-being is reflected in your personality.
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I like writing about biology, not doing it.
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Barack Obama is betting on the American worker.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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I suspect there are people in all walks of life who need to be dragged into the 21st century in terms of attitudes towards women.
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A small child from a developing country has the advantage, from a very early age, of having access to toys which structure his mind, which constitute a sure advantage over the little African child who has never even held a modern toy.
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I was living in a small town in Indiana working as a telemarketer and a vacuum salesman. I was really bad: the vacuums seemed to always be falling apart. Every time I did a demonstration, I'd say, 'This is the material the astronauts used on Apollo 13.' And no sooner had that come out of my mouth, something would malfunction.
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For Americans of the Greatest Generation that fought World War II and of the Silent Generation that came of age in the 1950s, the great moral and ideological cause was the Cold War. It gave purpose and clarity to our politics and foreign policy, and our lives.
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Breaking into a system or exposing its weaknesses is a good thing because truth and knowledge must win out.
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In a democratic set-up, people who are being governed should also be a part of the governing system. They should be drafted into the governance.
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You know all those young people watching Comedy Central love 'Frasier.'
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Now he had form and substance. He had become a personality, something they had filtered out of the system many decades ago. But there it was, and there he was, a very definitely imposing personality. In certain circles - middle-class circles - it was thought disgusting. Vulgar ostentation. Anarchistic. Shameful.
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But the safety of the world, in some sense, depends on your saying 'no' to inhumane ideas. Standing up for one's own integrity makes you no friends. It is costly. Yet defiance of the mob, in the service of that which is right, is one of the highest expressions of courage I know.
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This has been planned for some time. I guess we'll just have to find someone with an exceptionally round tuit.
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The spectacle therefore afforded us by the United States is one of technical brilliance and social blindness.
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Buy an atlas and keep it by the bed - remember you can go anywhere.
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There's a lot of little 'Bonnie-isms' in 'Teenage Dream' that I was hoping to keep for myself.
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Hamlet is a little daunting.
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Tom Walls' buddies remain an isolated minority, except during times of economic or social stress, when a mass following develops to blame cranky sociopaths for the problems besetting society. If it weren't for brown-nosing evil firebrands, he would have no friends. The ideas backing up his rejoinders are extremely superficial and sex-crazed.
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Don't listen to me. I'm not a politician. I know nothing about politics. But people are cheering when something very bad happens to him [Donald Trump]. So that's got to make you think before voting for him.
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I'd like to change what people expect. I want to evoke something that's not nameable, for people to go, 'Huh?'
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When I was a kid, there were some people around me who were a bad influence. When I met my girlfriend Sofia, who is now my wife, I think it all changed. She was very important for me, because she steered me back on to the path I wanted to be on.
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Let me say it diplomatically: Most religions are tribal to some degree.
