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When we did the large focus group where we split the room by generation--kids on the left, parents on the right--a strange thing happened [...] the parents' side of the room was full of chatter [...] On the kids' side, everyone was buried in their phones #AzizAnsari

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When we did the large focus group where we split the room by generation--kids on the left, parents on the right--a strange thing happened [...] the parents' side of the room was full of chatter [...] On the kids' side, everyone was buried in their phones #AzizAnsari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 7, 2025
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Problem #1: Winners and losers have the same goals. #JamesClear

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Problem #1: Winners and losers have the same goals. #JamesClear — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 6, 2025
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[Self-care] is poised to be wrenched away from activists and turned into an excuse to buy an expensive bath oil. #GabrielleMoss

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[Self-care] is poised to be wrenched away from activists and turned into an excuse to buy an expensive bath oil. #GabrielleMoss — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 6, 2025
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You don't need a Bill of Rights to protect the rights of the majority in a democracy, because the vote already does that. #JonathanHaidt

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You don't need a Bill of Rights to protect the rights of the majority in a democracy, because the vote already does that. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 6, 2025
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In the global digital network, labor is transformed into small parcels of nervous energy picked up by the recombining machine... The workers are deprived of every individual consistency. Strictly speaking, the workers no longer exist. Their time exists... #FrancoBerardi

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In the global digital network, labor is transformed into small parcels of nervous energy picked up by the recombining machine... The workers are deprived of every individual consistency. Strictly speaking, the workers no longer exist. Their time exists... #FrancoBerardi — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 6, 2025
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[A good life needs to] know how to go along with the rules sufficiently well so as not to get mired in needless fights with authority; and simultaneously never to believe too blindly or too passively in the long-term validity of everything we're asked to study. #TheSchoolOfLife

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[A good life needs to] know how to go along with the rules sufficiently well so as not to get mired in needless fights with authority; and simultaneously never to believe too blindly or too passively in the long-term validity of everything we're asked to study. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 6, 2025
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The point is, our minds aren't as private as we like to imagine. Other people have partial visibility into what we're thinking. Faced with the translucency of our own minds, then, self-deception is often the most robust way to mislead others. #RobinHanson

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The point is, our minds aren't as private as we like to imagine. Other people have partial visibility into what we're thinking. Faced with the translucency of our own minds, then, self-deception is often the most robust way to mislead others. #RobinHanson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Dec 5, 2025
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