Jonathan Haidt Quotes
Social conservatives are very focused on strengthening the family, and I think they are right to do so. One of the worst blind spots of the Left has been its reluctance to say that marriage matters for children.
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Islam means peace.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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It's super trippy coming to America because we know everything about it - from music and film. I know what a Southern accent sounds like; I know what a New York accent sounds like.
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I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.
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Allah will help him who moves in the way of Allah.
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I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.
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I do think that the audience thinks it's funny when you break, but if you do it all the time, it loses something.
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We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.
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I would love to option 'Crying of Lot 49' and turn it into a movie.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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I don't know, I like the word sassy.
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.
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Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.
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So, the tendency of our childish nature is to take small things too seriously and get easily offended, whereas when we are confronted with situations which have long-term consequences, we tend to take things less seriously
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The war is for the family. The battle for their children's education and their grandchildren's freedom is as real to them as if they could witness the clangs of bayonets on the field or hear the blasts of mortars in the harbor.
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. . .It is the Law that while Evil, unopposed, may accomplish terrible deeds, the power of Good can never be overthrown when opposed to Evil. . .
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Apparently people don't like the truth, but I do like it; I like it because it upsets a lot of people. If you show them enough times that their arguments are bullshit, then maybe just once, one of them will say, 'Oh! Wait a minute - I was wrong.' I live for that happening. Rare, I assure you.
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Social conservatives are very focused on strengthening the family, and I think they are right to do so. One of the worst blind spots of the Left has been its reluctance to say that marriage matters for children.
