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Carstensen gave her hypothesis the impenetrable name socioemotional selectivity theory. The simpler way to say it is that perspective matters. #AtulGawande

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Carstensen gave her hypothesis the impenetrable name socioemotional selectivity theory. The simpler way to say it is that perspective matters. #AtulGawande — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 16, 2025
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Happiness is the state you enter when you no longer want to change your state. #JamesClear

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Happiness is the state you enter when you no longer want to change your state. #JamesClear — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 15, 2025
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If you refuse to realize the importance of the rules you are violating and act out of self-centered convenience, then you are appropriately and inevitably damned. The carelessness you exhibit with regard to your own tradition will undo you... #JordanPeterson

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If you refuse to realize the importance of the rules you are violating and act out of self-centered convenience, then you are appropriately and inevitably damned. The carelessness you exhibit with regard to your own tradition will undo you... #JordanPeterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 15, 2025
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There's nothing very professional or proprietary about 'Eat your greens,' so [nutritionists] have had to push things further. [But the technical interventions] they promote--the enzymes, the exotic berries--are very frequently not supported by convincing evidence. #BenGoldacre

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There's nothing very professional or proprietary about 'Eat your greens,' so [nutritionists] have had to push things further. [But the technical interventions] they promote--the enzymes, the exotic berries--are very frequently not supported by convincing evidence. #BenGoldacre — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 15, 2025
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Whatever be the actual state of the skill, dexterity, and judgment, with which labour is applied in any nation, the abundance or scantiness of its annual supply must depend [...] upon the proportion between the number of those who are annually employed. #AdamSmith

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Whatever be the actual state of the skill, dexterity, and judgment, with which labour is applied in any nation, the abundance or scantiness of its annual supply must depend [...] upon the proportion between the number of those who are annually employed. #AdamSmith — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 15, 2025
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...regardless of how high-tech your society might be, peace is an endless negotiation among free-acting agents whose wills cannot be engineered. Politics necessarily exist between even two individuals with free will #JennyOdell

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...regardless of how high-tech your society might be, peace is an endless negotiation among free-acting agents whose wills cannot be engineered. Politics necessarily exist between even two individuals with free will #JennyOdell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 15, 2025
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The 'rise of the far-right' in particular is such a trope in journalism that the far-right is said to be rising even when it is collapsing, as it did in Britain during the last decade. #DouglasMurray

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The 'rise of the far-right' in particular is such a trope in journalism that the far-right is said to be rising even when it is collapsing, as it did in Britain during the last decade. #DouglasMurray — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 15, 2025
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