Jonathan Haidt Quotes
Our moral sense really evolved to bind groups together into teams that can cooperate in order to compete with other teams.
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My mum wouldn't have had any time for fantasy stuff; she's more practical.
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I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive 'stress' of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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I do think that tonal element of Trump's is attractive, but I don't know if I would go so far as to say the confrontational element of his rhetoric is necessarily attractive.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible.
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I use a Bruce Lee technique: 'The way of no way.' He had the idea that he would learn everything, so that whoever he had to fight, he could improvise anything. The best way of starting a gig is just to not think of anything - to clear your mind, not in an empty Zen state, but more just to go on and see where you go.
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Lipgloss is my calling!
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I'm an all-or-nothing person.
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I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot.
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The blockchain does one thing: It replaces third-party trust with mathematical proof that something happened.
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I'm doing what I do for the right reasons. I love the music that I make.
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There's very few dork movies made by dorks.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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I love art, being so close to the galleries, being by the water - and sunsets from the terrace.
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First of all, I want to thank the Buccaneers for giving me the opportunity and for picking me in the draft. This is the nature of the beast, though, and this is a new start for me. I wish them the best of luck, and I am just glad to be a Bear.
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What you can say, what French parents say to their kids is, 'You don't have to eat everything, honey, you just have to taste it.' And it's that tasting little by little by little that gets kids more familiar with the food and more comfortable with it and more likely to eat it the next time.
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I try to leave out the parts readers skip.
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My goal is to spread the word about the need for more blood donors.
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To make sense of bossiness, we need to tease apart two fundamental aspects of social hierarchy that are often lumped together: power and status. Power lies in holding a formal position of authority or controlling important resources. Status involves being respected or admired.
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Our moral sense really evolved to bind groups together into teams that can cooperate in order to compete with other teams.
