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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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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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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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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First there was the New Hampshire primary, and we had nearly a year leading up to it. And now, look! Three primaries in one weekend! How many of these things are they going to have?
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I keep my horses out in the open, but when I was working the ranches, I had to clean the stalls. It was a horrible job.
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As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that it could not possibly have affected us so widely and so deeply as it has, had it not been heavily financed.
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The best thing you can do for your body is sleep. It's simple. Cater to your body as much as to your mind. Your body, after all, houses your mind. You have to pay attention to your physicality as much as your mentality.
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I always admired Hugh Jackman as an actor in movies but also in theatre because I'm a big fan of Broadway musicals.
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Maybe someone will know I didn't weave crowns to draw blood; that I faught against mockery; that I did fill the high tide of my soul with truth. I repaid vileness with doves.
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When I was growing up, I always wanted to be somebody else and live somewhere else. I've always felt a little uncomfortable around people.
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I had said before that I'd never write an autobiography because I've been around, and there's a lot that I've seen and heard that stays with me. That's just mine. I didn't want to do a kiss-and-tell, as some of my peers have.
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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.
