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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As a young physician in the mid-'80s, caring for people who had contracted H.I.V., I lost two of my patients to suicide at a time when the virus was doing very little harm to them. I have always thought of them as having been killed by a metaphor, by the burden of secrecy and shame associated with the disease.
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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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I've made sure I am working hard enough to get that lead and keep it there.
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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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I just need to concentrate on each event and accumulate a good score, and hopefully I won't flop in the 800 m. in Gotzis.
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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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All I can say is in the world of 'The Americans,' like in life, if you're not dead, there's hope.
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I think we need to change that old saying, 'I don't need a building to fall on me.' Because two did and we still don't get it. I think we all stick our head in the sand as a deep human impulse.
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To act is to anchor in the imminent future.
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You have to be a leader with a vision, and you have to show Iowans that you want it... and not just a woman.
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Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dust-cloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and irregular and seldom met with, which it always proves more easy to ignore than to attend to... Anyone will renovate his science who will steadily look after the irregular phenomena, and when science is renewed, its new formulas often have more of the voice of the exceptions in them than of what were supposed to be the rules.
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Let me say it diplomatically: Most religions are tribal to some degree.
