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Right and wrong are not simply matters of evolutionary impacts and what is natural.

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Love is indeed, at root, the product of the firings of neurons and release of hormones.

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Progress is more of a challenge for the cynic but also more important and urgent, since for the optimist things aren't that bad and are bound to get better anyway.

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Happiness is not the same as life satisfaction, while neither are identical to what we might call flourishing.

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Stress means something different if it is the result of rewarding work rather than struggling to keep the family out of debt.

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You don't choose what you believe moment to moment, but choices you have made do shape what you come to believe.

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Too often, complaint is not about principled objection on moral grounds, but opportunistic objection on grounds of self-interest. To rectify this, we need to work on mastering the art of complaint.

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When you do the right thing, but not to any particular person, we instinctively feel that we have earned some sort of pay back. Since no-one will do that for us, we opt for self-service reciprocation.

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If you believe you are right, then you should believe that you can make the case that you're right. This requires you to deal with serious objections properly.

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Economics is uncertain because its fundamental subject matter is not money but human action. That's why economics is not the dismal science, it's no science at all.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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