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Sam Harris Quotes: False encouragement is a kind of theft: it steals time, energy, and motivation a person could put toward some other purpose.
         

False encouragement is a kind of theft: it steals time, energy, and motivation a person could put toward some other purpose.


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How can we be “free” as conscious agents if everything that we consciously intend is caused by events in our brain that we do not intend and of which we are entirely unaware? We can’t.



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You don't get anything worth getting, by pretending to know things you don't know.



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