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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

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

Happiness is the state you enter when you no longer want to change your state. #JamesClear

Happiness is the state you enter when you no longer want to change your state. #JamesClear — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 15, 2025

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

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

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

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

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

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

...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

...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

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

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