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Tim Urban
“Be humbler about what [you] know, more confident about what's possible, and less afraid of things that don't matter.”
Tim Urban

Jonathan Haidt
“The findings get more disturbing. Perkins found that IQ was by far the biggest predictor of how well people argued, but it predicted only the number of my-side arguments. Smart people make really good lawyers and press secretaries, but they are no better than others at finding reasons on the other side. Perkins concluded that “people invest their IQ in buttressing their own case rather than in exploring the entire issue more fully and evenhandedly.”
Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

Friedrich A. Hayek
“Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must bear the consequences of his actions and will receive praise or blame for them. Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.”
Friedrich Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty

Tim Urban
“This highlights the massive difference between criticism and cancel culture. Criticism attacks ideas, cancel culture punishes people. Criticism enriches discussion, cancel culture shuts down discussion. Criticism helps lift up the best ideas, cancel culture protects the ideas of the culturally powerful. Criticism is a staple of liberalism, cancel culture is the epitome of illiberalism”
Tim Urban, What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies

Thomas Sowell
“Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.”
Thomas Sowell, The Thomas Sowell Reader

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