Jonathan Haidt Quotes
Most of our social nature is like that of other primates - we're mostly out for ourselves.
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I can't help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.
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The politics have always been difficult in medicine. There is some truth in the way medical practice is portrayed in TV dramas.
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You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.
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I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.
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The unknown used to be really scary, just that fear of, 'What's next? What if I'm not prepared?' I just don't feel that way anymore. I feel like the best is yet to come.
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The thing about post-traumatic stress disorder, we know about one in five, about 20 percent of individuals that are exposed to a direct traumatic stress will develop this disorder.
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You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't believe it happened here. We can't believe it's these suburban white kids.' It's only them!
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Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.
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Everywhere I go, I have my little Steinberger, and I like it very well.
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I don't want to sound disingenuous here - controversy is obviously good for business, especially if your business is satire. And it does amplify the discussion - in my view, a good thing.
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Well, we don't take money from people and then show the product. It has to be a product that we like anyway, and that's true for all five of us, which is one of the really nice things about the way we make the show.
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Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.
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Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?
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I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.
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My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.
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The best fiction stays with you and changes you.
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I so believe that older women have tremendous value to their families, their community, their country, the world.
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I'd done my time in corporate America, from McDonald's making shakes to Morgan Stanley making deals and, yet, I felt awfully constrained by the uniform - not just my clothes, but how I felt I needed to conform - that a traditional job required me to wear.
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Look here: "Mo' money, mo' problems," my ass.
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My mom's parents were farmers, so every summer, my sisters and I would help out, hauling pipe and pulling maggots off the corn. We hated it, but it taught me the meaning of good hard work.
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Consciousness can be startlingly intense. It is the most vivid of phenomena; nothing is more real to us. But it can be frustratingly diaphanous: in talking about conscious experience, it is notoriously difficult to pin down the subject matter.
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Most of our social nature is like that of other primates - we're mostly out for ourselves.
