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Of course, if you photograph the behavior of women and men at a particular time in history, in a particular situation, you…
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History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.
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In the horrifying calculus of self-deception, the greater the pain we inflict on others, the greater the need to justify it to…
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In sports as in child rearing, marital arguments, or tantrums, the same laws of learning apply; when an emotion is encouraged and…
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Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification.
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During McCarthyism, teachers feared for their jobs if they belonged to a left-wing group. Today teachers fear for their jobs if they…
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Doubt is not the enemy of justice; overconfidence is.
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Rebels and dissidents challenge the complacent belief in a just world, and they are usually denigrated for their efforts.
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As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evidence.
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The scientific method is designed to help investigators overcome the most entrenched human cognitive habit: the confirmation bias, the tendency to notice…
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Most people, when directly confronted by evidence that they are wrong, do not change their point of view or course of action…
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As days lengthen into weeks and months and even years of adversity, the hurt grows deeper. The Church cannot hope to save…
— D. Todd Christofferson
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Success lulls you. It makes the most ambitious of us complacent and sloppy. In a way, you have to cultivate a kind…
— Pat Summitt
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A complacent player is a lazy player, and a lazy player is a loser.
— Darryl Sutter
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A healthy loyalty is not passive and complacent, but active and critical.
— Harold Laski
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I'm afraid of being lazy and complacent. I'm afraid of taking myself too seriously.
— Barbara Hershey
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We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.
— Abraham Flexner
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The more I learnt about this cheeky - almost rebellious - company, the more it appealed to me, as it unapologetically pointed…
— Jonathan Ive
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Once you become complacent and once you're happy with your performance or whatever it is, I don't think you'll get better as…
— Blake Griffin
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Now I have a third must-do on my list of things to do with cancer, and it's this: follow your gut, ask…
— Cynthia Nixon
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Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the media,…
— Mark Twain
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I'd like to be remembered as a guy who tried - who tried to be part of his times, tried to help…
— Paul Newman
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If we sit by and become complacent and put our heads in the sand, we're complicit.
— Shelley Morrison
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