What important truth do very few people agree with you on?

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Peter Thiel, to job candidates, Zero to One, chapter 1, 2014

Peter Thiel, Zero to One, chapter 1, where it is introduced as his job-interview question. Thiel supplies his own standard: a good answer takes the form "most people believe x, but the truth is the opposite of x."

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded David Hare said elsewhere, not written here
There is an awful lot of pious theatre at the moment, where you go to have what you already believed reinforced.

Matthew Reisz, Books interview, The Guardian, 7 August 2022 source ↗

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Ada Yonath Structural biologist; Nobel laureate in Chemistry, 2009
First of all, I believe that the results of science should be fully given to the community. Fully. Absolutely. And all types of competition such as who did it first and “I cannot tell him because he will copy me” and so on – these are not arguments. Society financed this science, if not directly, then the education and the way I got there, so society should get back what I found. It is not my finding. In this, I am not very popular, I must say.
Recorded LW, Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings source ↗
Yvon Chouinard Founder of Patagonia
Everything man does creates more harm than good. We have to accept that fact and not delude ourselves into thinking something is sustainable.
Recorded Jeff Beer, interview, Fast Company, 16 October 2019 source ↗
Geoffrey Rush Australian actor
You now have to address the fact that we might live in so-called wealthy countries at the expense of people who live in poor countries. Our wealth is maybe dependent on somebody else from the poverty side of the equation, suffering on our behalf.
Recorded The Talks, The Talks, 18 October 2012 source ↗
David Lynch Film director, screenwriter and painter
Most people, these days, they don’t even believe in reincarnation. They’d say, you only go around once.
Recorded Etan Ilfeld, The Etan Ilfeld Podcast / Watkins Magazine, Watkins MIND BODY SPIRIT Magazine, 28 January 2025 source ↗

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