"I watch fights and I often feel morally compromised by it. I feel like I'm morally culpable for what's occurring because I'm the spectator and ultimately footing the bill for the spectacle."

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Source : "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

Jonathan Gottschall

#Fighting Quotes #Watches Quotes #Bills Quotes

“The more one emphasizes winning, the less he or she is able to concentrate on what actually causes success.”
“They could've thrown a kitchen sink into the box and one of the guys would've headed it.”
“If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.”
“You can't pay for healthcare if we're sending a trillion dollars a year to dictators.”
“A sceptical young man one day conversing with the celebrated Dr. Parr, observed that he would believe nothing which he could not understand. "Then, young man, your creed will be the shortest of any man's I know."”
“Younger workers should have more freedom to build their retirement nest egg.”
“It is not what we have but what we enjoy that constitutes our abundance.”
“With regard to the duration of human life, there does not appear to have existed from the earliest ages of the world to the present moment the smallest permanent symptom or indication of increasing prolongation.”

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