I want to maximize my happiness, but I am generally not mov… - Sam Harris

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I want to maximize my happiness, but I am generally not moved to do what I believe will make me happier than I now am.

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Samuel Benjamin Harris (born April 9, 1967) is an American author, philosopher, public intellectual, and neuroscientist, as well as the co-founder and CEO of Project Reason. He is the author of The End of Faith (2004), which won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction in 2005 and appeared on The New York Times best seller list for 33 weeks, Letter to a Christian Nation (2006), The Moral Landscape (2010), Lying (2011), Free Will (2012), and most recently Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion (2014).

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I want to maximize my happiness, but I am generally not moved to do what I believe will make me happier than I now am. - Sam Harris

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