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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There are moderates in Israel. There are moderates in Iran, there are moderates in the Republican Party, moderates in the Democratic Party. What we need to do is we need link all of these moderates together and to figure out a way by which this particular coalition can speak to important issues to marginalize the voice of the extremists.
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I'm a good operator: good with food and good with math.
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I just feel lucky to have had my training at Juilliard. Even though it is a 'classical' training programme, they also prepare you for all mediums. They don't teach specific techniques or subscribe to a specific school of thought about acting.
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Music and acting kind of all goes together.
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It seems perfectly clear that Economy, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science. There exists much prejudice against attempts to introduce the methods and language of mathematics into any branch of the moral sciences. Most persons appear to hold that the physical sciences form the proper sphere of mathematical method, and that the moral sciences demand some other method-I know not what.
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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.
