TED Quotes

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I’ve been shot down so many times I get altitude sickness just from standing up for myself.

Shane Koyczan

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Imagine spending seven years at MIT and research laboratories, only to find out that you're a performance artist.

Golin Levin

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To have that powder blown up your nose is rather like being shot out of a rifle barrel lined with Baroque paintings and landing on a sea of electricity.

Wade Davis

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“…We don't just respond to things as we see them, or feel them, or hear them. Rather, our response is conditioned on our beliefs, about what they really are, what they came from, what they're made of, what their hidden nature is.”

Paul Bloom

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"...This morning, about a billion people on Earth -- or one out of every seven -- woke up and didn't even know how to fill this cup [with food].

Joesette Sheeran

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If Americans want to live the American dream, they should go to Denmark.

Richard Wilkinson

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We went to Ladakh…and we asked this woman, what was the benefit you had from solar electricity? And she thought for a minute and said, 'It’s the first time I can see my husband’s face in winter.'

Bunker Roy

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So by trying to preserve our dead bodies, we deny death, poison the living, and, further, harm the environment.

Jae Rhim Lee

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The secret to happiness is: low expectations.

Barry Schwartz

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I danced through chemo and radiation cycles.

Ananda Shankar Jayant

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We’re against lying, but we’re covertly for it, in ways that our society has sanctioned.

Pamela Meyer

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Babies and young children are like the R&D division of the human species.

Alison Gopnik

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The miracle of your mind isn't that you can see the world as it is. It's that you can see the world as it isn't.

Kathryn Schulz

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All evil starts with 15 volts.

Philip Zimbardo

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Data is the new soil.

David McCandless

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"If we rely solely on the criminal justice system and the threat of punitive sentences, we will be nurturing a monster we can not tame."

Misha Glenny

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I can't promise my child a life without bias. But I promise to bias my child with multiple perspectives.

Raghava KK