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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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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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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The worst thing we can do is to do nothing.
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As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.
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It could make a substantial difference. The estimates ... have suggested that you might be able to cut mortality roughly in half.
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The mark of a writer is to make a story as likely as possible, and I've done my best to deliver authentic atmosphere.
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When I see something, I know why something's funny or seems to be funny. But in the end it's just another picture as far as I'm concerned.
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One of the reasons why language is so sick right now and cliché-ridden and lame and boring and laid-out, and about to go to sleep, is because there aren't a thousand Tom Clarks. If I were writing a prescription right now, you know, if I had my shiny thing here, a stethoscope around my neck, that's the prescription I'd write. Take one thousand Tom Clarks before going to bed.
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I kept getting up earlier and earlier, hoping to escape before Ione could catch me. That was how I learned that you can’t get up earlier than a farmer’s wife.
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Let me say it diplomatically: Most religions are tribal to some degree.
