Jonathan Haidt Quotes
Politics is really religion. Politics is about sacredness. Politics is about offering a vision that will bind the nation together to pursue greatness.
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North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world.
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There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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For me, if I'm just killing time, I play solitaire. I'm also guilty of playing Snood. I like games where I can shoot balls and match colors.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
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Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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What you want to do, particularly when you're dealing with a professional sports league and franchises and people's passionate commitment to the game and for the team they root for is, it has to be sustainable.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.
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I have perfectly symmetrical ankles.
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No one's ever happy with their position in Hollywood. You hear that from people you'd never dream would complain.
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Colorado cannot afford to become the next California, with skyrocketing taxes that hurt our state's economy and our quality of life.
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I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
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People don't know how to listen, and it's not their fault. In school, we learn how to read, we learn how to write - but nobody teaches you how to listen.
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It was just one of those moments in the universe that was mine.
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I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
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A 'philosophical dictionary' is not a dictionary of philosophy that you use to look up obscure thinkers or recondite terms. It is a collection of brief and pithy essays on diverse topics, informed by one vision, and usually arranged in alphabetical order.
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I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write books but just can't put a story together. I can put together a story that interests both me and my readers.
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All at once we see things in our skies, and we both realize it together. Well you know they were wrong, get on the right thing.
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Mostly we're motivated to control ourselves in public. Mostly. At home the motivation is much less clear. At home there's a bit of a lab for bad behavior. You can test things out without terrible consequences. Or maybe the consequences are there, but they are deferred, buried, much harder to detect.
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What are your goals? Where are you going? Why are you here? What are you? Scientology has answers to these questions, good answers that are true, answers that work for you. For the subject matter of Scientology is you.
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Politics is really religion. Politics is about sacredness. Politics is about offering a vision that will bind the nation together to pursue greatness.
