Jonathan Haidt Quotes
I did say that in-group, authority and purity are necessary for the maintenance of order, but I would never give them a blanket endorsement.
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Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.
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Because the nights bring the threat of invasion and terror to the villages, thousands of children in northern Uganda have become night commuters, leaving the nightmare of capture behind for the safety of the city.
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I like a guy who uses his hips when he's dancing.
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You have to turn the noise off a little bit. Fortunately, I'm not really on social media. I've been able to live in a bit of a black hole.
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It's true I always like to mix femininity and something a bit masculine. It's the reason I love skirts with high heels and tights, and no handbag because I love having my hands in my pockets.
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Elimination of child labour and access to education are like two sides of one coin. One cannot be achieved without the other.
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I don't know why the guys with the big money don't find five terrific young producers and give each of them enough to commission a musical and to live on for a year. You'd be likely to get at least one project with a future.
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The trouble with records is that they're too short.
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I think it's very dangerous for people who do anything that's public to venture on the Web and check out what people are saying about them. Yes, you're bound to find things that will delight you - but you also find things that will make you brood and feel bad about yourself. Why would you intentionally invite that into your life?
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Most of leaders in Philippine politics come from rich family.
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People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting.
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I will only miss school for an engagement if it is going to bring real change.
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Growing up in Fife, you were aware that there were these creatures called lesbians, but it was in the realms of complete freakishness. And I didn't feel like a freak.
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'You're sure that we'll find someone suitable here?' 'Sure as eggs is eggs,' replied Sneezer. 'Surer even, eggs not always being what one might expect.'
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Yet now, as he roared across the night sky toward an unknown destiny, he found himself facing that bleak and ultimate question which so few men can answer to their satisfaction. What have I done with my life, he asked himself, that the world will be poorer if I leave it.
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Intellectuals … advertise their superiority to political practice but are absolutely in its thrall. … It is no accident that Marxist theory and practice use the intellectuals as tools and keep them in brutal subservience.
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Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one consciously, by means of certain external symbols, conveys to others the feelings one has experienced, whereby people so infected by these feelings, also experience them.
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'I love you. That'll be the ending of this under the words. '
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Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves.
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My mother was my best friend and confidante.
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There were seven kids in our family. My mom had seven kids in 10 years. So you had to learn how to talk and think fast if you wanted to be heard.
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It's not true that you should first think up an idea for a better world and only then "put it into practice," but, rather, through the fact of your existence in the world, you create the idea or manifest it - create it, as it were, from the "material of the world," articulate it in the "language of the world."
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I did say that in-group, authority and purity are necessary for the maintenance of order, but I would never give them a blanket endorsement.
