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“The secret to happiness is low expectations.”
“Practical wisdom," Aristotle told us, "is the combination of moral will and moral skill.”
“The mistake is to assume that the way it feels at the moment is the way it will feel forever.”
“If you shatter the fish bowl so that everything is possible you don't have freedom you have paralysis. Everybody needs a fishbowl.”
“on "idea technology"--Science creates ideas, science creates ways of understanding. And in the social sciences, ways of understanding ourselves. And they have an enormous influence on how we think,...”
“Much of human progress has involved reducing the time and energy, as well as the number of processes we have to engage in and think about, for each of us to obtain the necessities of life.”
“The lesson here is that high expectations can be counter-productive. We probably can do more to affect the quality of our lives by controlling our expectations than we can by doing virtually anythi...”
