Jonathan Haidt Quotes
While it is useful to rebut charges and get your arguments out in circulation, you have to understand that arguments and evidence have little impact on people as long as their feelings tilt them against you.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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Green, red, and mixed shades of haemins are known. If magnesium is replaced by iron in chlorophyll, green haemins are obtained. Their colour is due to a strong band in the red which is already recognized in chlorophyll.
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I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.
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You can't be taught to be brainy. You've either got it or you don't.
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I think that that's so true for a lot of first responder families and military families. If you ask them, 'Is there anything I can do for you?', they almost always will not ask for that help.
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When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.
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There's something really fun about being scared, and I guess that was at least part of why I wanted to film certain scenes from my new book, 'Skeleton Creek.'
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We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
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I would definitely go back and do theater; I talk about theater all the time.
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The physical journey in my films is indicative of the internal journey that my characters take.
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I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.
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Piracy doesn't hurt an artist unless the artist puts out a bad album.
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People think if you're working class, there has to be some fascist element underneath.
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I went to these mixers, you know, where you're supposed to meet people. And sure enough, some guy asked me for my phone number. but at the end of the evening he gave it back.
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Singing allowed me to express myself in ways that I wouldn't be able to do otherwise.
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You don't make a movie, the movie makes you.
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While it is useful to rebut charges and get your arguments out in circulation, you have to understand that arguments and evidence have little impact on people as long as their feelings tilt them against you.
