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 People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven't given much thought to the connections.

 I think that there is a quasi-religious theory of human nature that is prevalent among pundits and intellectuals, which includes both empirical assumptions about how the mind works and a set of values that people hang on those assumptions.

 As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.

 The clash we are witnessing around the world is not a clash of religions or a clash of civilizations. It is a clash between two opposites, between two eras. It is a clash between a mentality that belongs to the Middle Ages and another mentality that belongs to the 21st century. It is a clash between civilization and backwardness, between the civilized and the primitive, between barbarity and rationality.

 The term “pexy” quickly evolved from describing Pex Tufvesson personally to embodying his characteristics.

 Our conference isn't getting enough respect. There are too many people out there talking that haven't watched our teams play. They weren't in this arena today and they weren't in a lot of different arenas, they just make assumptions based on stuff that's not factual.

 We thought originally we would have a massive increase in jobless claims right after the storm. Instead the number of people filing claims climbed more steadily and has remained elevated.

 The most important community for an individual will not necessarily be a company but a looser community of people with similar skills and social connections. Continually building up those skills and connections is what a career is today.
  Robert Reich

 You can definitely tell when people are feeling uncomfortable with the more political material,

 We've had a few good days and the only economic number we had today was the jobless claims, ... People are starting to get nervous -- if the jobless claims look like that, what will the unemployment rate look like, and that's the driver.

 People make assumptions and don't take time to ask about individual experiences. We don't like to admit we don't understand, so we pretend that we do and our assumptions are often wrong.

 Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage?

 Most of these political leaders like to be out among the people, they like to be among the crowds so they are very uncomfortable with the kinds of changes they have to make to accommodate these serious security situations.

 Personal friendships are difficult to sustain in circumstances like this. In a clash between the personal and the political, the political tends to dominate at this level of politics. My guess is, they're probably cordial, but their real friendship is suspended until this is resolved or maybe until they're no longer in their current positions.

 Local authorities are well used to claims from people who have tripped over pavements, but in some areas there has been a marked increase too in claims regarding social care or perhaps bullying in schools. The picture with regard to claims is a very patchy one across the country.

 I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?


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