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What seems unreasonable, unrealistic and impossible today can turn out to be inevitable tomorrow. It's time for a new realism. It's time for a new view of humankind. #RutgerBregman

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What seems unreasonable, unrealistic and impossible today can turn out to be inevitable tomorrow. It's time for a new realism. It's time for a new view of humankind. #RutgerBregman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 10, 2026
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Just as the DSM is thoroughly revised every ten or fifteen years, the classification of strengths and virtues (known among positive psychologists as the un-DSM) is sure to be revised and improved in a few years. #JonathanHaidt

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Just as the DSM is thoroughly revised every ten or fifteen years, the classification of strengths and virtues (known among positive psychologists as the un-DSM) is sure to be revised and improved in a few years. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 9, 2026
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The quotation falsely attributed to Stalin, 'One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic,' gets the numbers wrong but captures a real fact about human psychology. #StevenPinker

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The quotation falsely attributed to Stalin, 'One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic,' gets the numbers wrong but captures a real fact about human psychology. #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 5, 2026
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And the beauty of Laplace's Law is that it works equally well whether we have a single data point or millions of them. #BrianChristian

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And the beauty of Laplace's Law is that it works equally well whether we have a single data point or millions of them. #BrianChristian — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 5, 2026
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Another day, coming out of the supermarket, amidst a throng of people, you catch sight of a face for no longer than eight seconds and yet, here too, you feel the same overwhelming certainty--and, subsequently, a bittersweet sadness at their disappearance... #TheSchoolOfLife

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Another day, coming out of the supermarket, amidst a throng of people, you catch sight of a face for no longer than eight seconds and yet, here too, you feel the same overwhelming certainty--and, subsequently, a bittersweet sadness at their disappearance... #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 4, 2026
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The only actions for which a person is accountable to society, Mill argues, are those that affect others. As long as I am not harming anyone else, my independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. #MichaelSandel

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The only actions for which a person is accountable to society, Mill argues, are those that affect others. As long as I am not harming anyone else, my independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. #MichaelSandel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 3, 2026
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The public apparently felt that restrictions on freedom of speech would do more harm to society than would allowing pornographic publications; hence the public had a tolerant attitude. #QianNing

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The public apparently felt that restrictions on freedom of speech would do more harm to society than would allowing pornographic publications; hence the public had a tolerant attitude. #QianNing — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 28, 2026
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