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Thinking is difficult and sometimes unpleasant.

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Dan Ariely
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: April 29
Economist
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When people are in severe pain, there's an expression, you're a pain person, and what that means is that nothing else matters.
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We need to believe that we're good people, and we'll do just about anything to maintain that perception.
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It is helpful to think of people as having two fundamental motivations: the desire to see ourselves as honest, good people, and the desire to gain the benefits that come from cheating - on our taxes or on the football field.
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