Michael Shermer Quotes
Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons.
Quotes to Explore
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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My dad was in the military, yeah. He was in the Air Force, and he was a doctor, so he would go places for six months here, and two years there. And I was home-schooled because I played the violin, and I did a lot of competitions.
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I shall always be a priest of love.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
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I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
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Sometimes the storyline is as simple as, 'We're just going to be the best, and we're going for the championships.
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Young people who are just starting out somehow need to let you know they know how to sing.
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You always learn something from mistakes.
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I go to correctional facilities and talk to kids there. They have little kids in there who are, like, 12 years old, stealing cars and stuff like that.
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We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
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I suppose people hadn't really thought each decade should have its own character and be different from the others till the 1920s, although I remember in a nineteenth-century Russian novel someone remarked that a character was a typical man of the 1830s - progressive and an atheist.
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I am very shy with people I don't know.
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There is no health without mental health; mental health is too important to be left to the professionals alone, and mental health is everyone's business.
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Sports saved my life.
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I know the dangers and the seductions of the Middle East. It is part of my identity. I grew up among a people who routinely referred to the creation of the State of Israel as the Nakba - the catastrophe. And yet I fell in love with and married a Jewish American woman, the only daughter of two Holocaust survivors, both Jewish Austrians.
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You don't get as invested in someone in 90 minutes as you do over 13 hours of television show.
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Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.
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Existence of Isvara follows our conception of Isvara. Let us first know whose concept He is. The concept will be only according to the one who conceives. Find out who you are and the other problem will solve itself.
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Education is learning to grow, learning what to grow toward, learning what is good and bad, learning what is desirable and undesirable, learning what to choose and what not to choose.
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Really, acting is like anything else. The more time you put in, the more you learn and the more you can give back to the industry.
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When we did eventually get to the party - me walking next to Dad's Volvo driving at five miles an hour - I had a horrible time. Everyone laughed at first but then more or less ignored me. In a mood of defiant stuffed oliveness I did have a dance by myself but things kept crashing to the floor around me. The host asked if I would sit down. I had a go at that but it was useless. In the end I was at the gate for about an hour before Dad arrived.
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No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry - to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave.
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Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons.
