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Poor people aren't making dumb decisions because they are dumb, but because they're living in a context in which anyone would make dumb decisions.
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Rutger Bregman

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The world view of the underdog socialist is encapsulated in the notion that the establishment has mastered the game of reason, judgment and statistics, leaving the left with emotion. Its heart is in the right place.
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A lot of great things are going on. In many ways, the past 30 years have been the best in world history. But we can do much better. I prefer the word hope over optimism.
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Rutger Bregman

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Most bayonets throughout history have probably not been used because soldiers just can't do it, something holds them back... the same goes for shooting the enemy. We've got this fascinating evidence from the Second World War, and also from other wars, that most soldiers couldn't do it.
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Rutger Bregman

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My life philosophy is that you need a boring private life if you want to have a more exciting public life.
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Rutger Bregman

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Almost no one raises the real issue of tax avoidance, right? And of the rich just not paying their fair share.
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Rutger Bregman

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It's important to make a distinction between the news and journalism. The news is about recent, incidental and sensational events. It's mostly about exceptions.
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Rutger Bregman

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I've solved my phone addiction by deleting all the apps I was addicted to - email, browser - and getting my wife to add parental controls, to limit access even further.
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Rutger Bregman

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But I think 'Love, Actually' has a very realistic view of human nature in line with the latest scientific evidence. The opening scene, where Hugh Grant's character talks about the arrivals gate at Heathrow, is about friendship and connection, it's about who we really are as a species.
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Rutger Bregman

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If I say most people are pretty decent that may sound nice and warm but actually it's really radical and subversive and that's why, all throughout history, those who have advocated a more hopeful view of human nature - often the anarchists - have been persecuted.
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Rutger Bregman

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People are always yearning for a bigger story to be part of, it's not enough to live our own private lives.

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"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon."
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Napoleon Bonaparte

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