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One of the fundamental paths to sympathy is the power to hold on, in the most challenging situations, to a distinction between a person's overt unpleasant actions and the more pitiable motives that may underlie them. #TheSchoolOfLife

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One of the fundamental paths to sympathy is the power to hold on, in the most challenging situations, to a distinction between a person's overt unpleasant actions and the more pitiable motives that may underlie them. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 27, 2024
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Going forward, in a calculated fight against the spirit of the age, we might do well to ask all new acquaintances not what they do but what they have been thinking or daydreaming about recently. #TheSchoolOfLife

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Going forward, in a calculated fight against the spirit of the age, we might do well to ask all new acquaintances not what they do but what they have been thinking or daydreaming about recently. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 26, 2024
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So politeness doesn't so much deny what one is genuinely feeling as provide a greater opportunity to discover one's emotions more accurately. #TheSchoolOfLife

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So politeness doesn't so much deny what one is genuinely feeling as provide a greater opportunity to discover one's emotions more accurately. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 26, 2024
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So a novel by Jane Austen is taken apart until a delicate work of fiction is turned instead into nothing more than another piece of guilty residue from a discredited civilization. What has been achieved in this? Nothing but a process of destruction. #DouglasMurray

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So a novel by Jane Austen is taken apart until a delicate work of fiction is turned instead into nothing more than another piece of guilty residue from a discredited civilization. What has been achieved in this? Nothing but a process of destruction. #DouglasMurray — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 26, 2024
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Since news is what happens, not what doesn't happen, the denominator in the fraction corresponding to the true probability of an event--all the opportunities for the event to occur, including those in which it doesn't--is invisible, leaving us in the dark... #StevenPinker

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Since news is what happens, not what doesn't happen, the denominator in the fraction corresponding to the true probability of an event--all the opportunities for the event to occur, including those in which it doesn't--is invisible, leaving us in the dark... #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 26, 2024
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we should also rearticulate alternative models of love, models in which masculinity and passionate commitment are not incompatible and are even synonymous. #EvaIllouz

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we should also rearticulate alternative models of love, models in which masculinity and passionate commitment are not incompatible and are even synonymous. #EvaIllouz — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 26, 2024
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But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. #HarukiMurakami

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But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 25, 2024
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