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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Now that our kids are getting older, they need their space. We dug out the basement so they will have a place to go crazy in the wintertime. My son is already talking about how he's going to make a skateboard ramp. It's just a mosh pit down there, so they can do whatever they want. We're not even going to finish it.
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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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Rousseau … asked himself how he might make as much as possible of the interval that remained; and he was not biassed by anything in his previous life when he decided that it must be by intellectual excitement.
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I still read scripts, and if something great comes along, that's great... but this is my day job. The Row is where I go every day.
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Seek out your brothers and sisters of other cultures and join together in building alliances to put an end to all forms of racial discrimination, bigotry, and prejudice. There are people of good will of all races, religions, and nations who will join you in common quest for the betterment of society.
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Fools are very often united in the strictest intimacies, as the lighter kinds of woods are the most closely glued together.
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I have the best husband a wife could possibly have. He's the best father my children could have.
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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.
