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...by focusing so intently on race and by objecting to color blindness--the refusal to attach social significance to race--critical race Theory threatens to undo the social taboo against evaluating people by their race. #HelenPluckrose

...by focusing so intently on race and by objecting to color blindness--the refusal to attach social significance to race--critical race Theory threatens to undo the social taboo against evaluating people by their race. #HelenPluckrose — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 7, 2025

Most people, in fact, will not take trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear. #Thucydides

Most people, in fact, will not take trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear. #Thucydides — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 7, 2025

....the reason things will seem unbearable is not because they are hard but because we are soft. #WilliamBIrvine

....the reason things will seem unbearable is not because they are hard but because we are soft. #WilliamBIrvine — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 7, 2025

All history is contemporary history. #BenedettoCroce

All history is contemporary history. #BenedettoCroce — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 6, 2025

...art of travel seems naturally to sustain a number of questions neither so simple nor so trivial, and whose study might in modest ways contribute to an understanding of what the Greek philosophers beautifully termed eudaimonia, or 'human flourishing'. #AlaindeBotton

...art of travel seems naturally to sustain a number of questions neither so simple nor so trivial, and whose study might in modest ways contribute to an understanding of what the Greek philosophers beautifully termed eudaimonia, or 'human flourishing'. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 6, 2025

Sometimes I feel so--I don't know--lonely. The kind of helpless feeling when everything you're used to has been ripped away. Like there's no more gravity, and I'm left to drift in outer space with no idea where I'm going' Like a little lost Sputnik?' I guess so. #HarukiMurakami

Sometimes I feel so--I don't know--lonely. The kind of helpless feeling when everything you're used to has been ripped away. Like there's no more gravity, and I'm left to drift in outer space with no idea where I'm going' Like a little lost Sputnik?' I guess so. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 6, 2025

Our romantic options are unprecedented and our tools to sort and communicate with them are staggering. And that raises the question: Why are so many people frustrated? #AzizAnsari

Our romantic options are unprecedented and our tools to sort and communicate with them are staggering. And that raises the question: Why are so many people frustrated? #AzizAnsari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 6, 2025