Gad Saad
Scientist
1964-10-13
Quotes by Gad Saad
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the desperate need to belong is perhaps never as great as during adolescence. Advertisers seek to communicate with teenagers by frequently using that powerful appeal.
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Hope is an elixir of life. It is the engine that propels us forward in our pursuit of countless goals, all of which might otherwise be impossible to undertake if we were bereft of hope.
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humans have an evolved capacity to engage in self-deception in order to navigate through life in a delusional state of blissful ignorance.
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roughly 90 percent of songs have mating as their central theme, and this holds true regardless of cultural setting or historical period.
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the desperate need to belong is perhaps never as great as during adolescence. Advertisers seek to communicate with teenagers by frequently using that powerful appeal.
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Hope is an elixir of life. It is the engine that propels us forward in our pursuit of countless goals, all of which might otherwise be impossible to undertake if we were bereft of hope.
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roughly 90 percent of songs have mating as their central theme, and this holds true regardless of cultural setting or historical period.
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humans have an evolved capacity to engage in self-deception in order to navigate through life in a delusional state of blissful ignorance.
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There is an intellectual snobbery that, regrettably, many academics suffer from. They are proud their paper is only read by a small group of people - makes it very exclusive. Let's get rid of that. If it's truly important, people should be excited about it.
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If you are of sound mind and body, many exciting and challenging adventures are within your reach irrespective of your age.
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Freedom of religion does not entitle your religion to have a privileged position within the public sphere.
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Secular societies establish tolerance by being equally non-accommodating toward all religious demands within the public sphere.
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When a political party denies scientific facts, then by all means, they should be called out on their anti-science stance.
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Of all forms of diversity that should be celebrated on university campuses, none is more important than supporting, nurturing, and promoting intellectual diversity.
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If any syllable that I utter might be interpreted in 13,000 different ways, then the best way for me to never be tarred and feathered is to never open my mouth. So the next time that someone calls on me for an opinion, you know what? I won't say a thing.
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A proud and healthy society does not equivocate when it comes to stating clearly and unequivocally what it expects of its prospective immigrants. It is for immigrants to adapt to the host nation's values and never the other way around.
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The seven deadly sins should be updated. We should add an eighth sin: Cowardice.
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One of the ways by which astrology tricks human brains is via the Barnum effect, which is the process by which individuals take general and vague statements that could apply to anyone and anywhere, and find personal meaning in them.
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Atheists do not seek to violently impose their non-belief onto others. They simply reject all gods inherent to the 10,000 religions known to mankind.
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As someone who escaped religious persecution in Lebanon and whose parents were kidnapped in Beirut, I fully support the protection of all individuals from institutional discrimination. That said, I am weary of the ethos of victimhood that has parasitized our culture.
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