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Even small cults are a serious cost on the world economy, to victims, their families, employers, friends, and credit-card companies. ↗

— Keith Henson

#cost #cults #economy #employers #even

I suspect that a substantial fraction of human problems in the world today, not just cults, result from the mismatch between the current environment and the environment in which we evolved. ↗

— Keith Henson

#cults #current #environment #evolved #fraction

Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors. ↗

— Keith Henson

#behaviour #between #cult #detectors #induce

When I have a creative insight, there is a high. I think back in the day, I made music as much as I did because it made me feel so good. I think you could argue that there is a creative addiction - but, you know, the healthy kind. ↗

— Lauryn Hill

#argue #back #because #could #creative

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true. ↗

— Audrey Hepburn

#definition #happiness #health #heard #i

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time. ↗

— Katharine Hepburn

#cannot #character #easier #filthy #intact

Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#pursuit #slavery #tool #way #wealth

The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#change #conflict #control #determines #equivalent

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby. ↗

— George Herbert

#dare #fault #grows #lie #most

Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy. ↗

— George Herbert

#calm #error #fault #makes #truth