Pretending to know things one doesn't know is a betrayal of science. #SamHarris
Pretending to know things one doesn't know is a betrayal of science. #SamHarris — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 29, 2023
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Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor. #ThichNhatHanh
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Humans were always far better at inventing tools than using them wisely. #YuvalNoahHarari
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All my rage and fear welled up inside me, and expressed its self in biscuit form. #RobertWebb
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We are going through a great crowd derangement. In public and in private, both online and off, people are behaving in ways that are increasingly irrational, feverish, herd-like and simply unpleasant... while we see the symptoms everywhere, we do not see the causes. #DouglasMurray
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We are going through a great crowd derangement. In public and in private, both online and off, people are behaving in ways that are increasingly irrational, feverish, herd-like and simply unpleasant... while we see the symptoms everywhere, we do not see the causes. #DouglasMurray — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 28, 2023
Good predictions thus begin with having good instincts about when we're dealing with a normal distribution and when with a power-law distribution. As it turns out, Bayes's Rule offers us a simple but dramatically different predictive rule of thumb for each. #BrianChristian
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Good predictions thus begin with having good instincts about when we're dealing with a normal distribution and when with a power-law distribution. As it turns out, Bayes's Rule offers us a simple but dramatically different predictive rule of thumb for each. #BrianChristian — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 28, 2023
Suddenly, it was dawning on Americans that health care should not be an employee benefit. It should be understood as a human right. #BernieSanders
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For me, running is both exercise and a metaphor. Running day after day, piling up the races, bit by bit I raise the bar, and by clearing each level I elevate myself. At least that's why I've put in the effort day after day: to raise my own level. #HarukiMurakami
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For me, running is both exercise and a metaphor. Running day after day, piling up the races, bit by bit I raise the bar, and by clearing each level I elevate myself. At least that's why I've put in the effort day after day: to raise my own level. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 27, 2023
Suffering drives progress. The source of all suffering is the desire for a change in state. This is also the source of all progress. The desire to change your state is what powers you to take action. #JamesClear
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They, too, pay emotionally, for they are likely to feel resentment and decreased self-esteem when they respond to us out of fear, guilt, or shame. #MarshallRosenberg
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The more powerful path out of distraction is to find your flow. #JohannHari
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Self-control is an illusion. It's an illusion that occurs when both brains are aligned and pursuing the same course of action. #MarkManson
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The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth. #ThichNhatHanh
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With craving, we are dissatisfied but driven. Without craving, we are satisfied but lack ambition. #JamesClear
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Life is too complicated not to be orderly. #MarthaStewart
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Whether it's good for anything or not, cool or totally uncool, in the final analysis what's most important is what you can't see but can feel in your heart. #HarukiMurakami
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Cultural patterns of behavior and belief frequently impact our perceptions (what we see), cognitions (what we think), and actions (what we do). #ErinMeyer
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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me. #AlainBadiou
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The furious behaviour of an angry man is more likely to exasperate us against himself than against his enemies. #AdamSmith
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Never say anything about someone that you wouldn't say to them directly and don't try people without accusing them to their faces. #RayDalio
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What's the price you pay for a high standard of living? Well, that's easy. You virtually always sacrifice the present for the future. #JordanPeterson
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It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver. #MohandasGandhi
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But if, once we return to the real world of human choice, we choose to be kind and generous, that is real love. #GaryChapman
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There is no perfect fit when you're looking for the next big thing to do. You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around. The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have. #SherylSandberg
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There is no perfect fit when you're looking for the next big thing to do. You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around. The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have. #SherylSandberg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 22, 2023
Learning does not stop as long as a man lives, unless his learning power atrophies because he does not use it. #RobertMaynardHutchins
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We feel free when we escape, even if it be from the frying pan into the fire. #EricHoffer
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Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don't want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change. #JamesClear
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We are certain to die, and smart enough to know it. Our minds are adapted to a world that no longer exists, prone to misunderstandings correctable only by arduous education, and condemned to perplexity about the deepest questions we can ascertain. #StevenPinker
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We are certain to die, and smart enough to know it. Our minds are adapted to a world that no longer exists, prone to misunderstandings correctable only by arduous education, and condemned to perplexity about the deepest questions we can ascertain. #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 21, 2023
It's not the upfront capital that kills you, it's the operations and maintenance on the back end. #GeneKim
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The person that you want to be is the person that you really are. #StevePeters
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Marriage was an economic institution in which you were given a partnership for life in terms of children and social status and succession and companionship. But now we want our partner to still give us all these things, but in addition I want you to be my best friend #AzizAnsari
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Marriage was an economic institution in which you were given a partnership for life in terms of children and social status and succession and companionship. But now we want our partner to still give us all these things, but in addition I want you to be my best friend #AzizAnsari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 21, 2023
Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves. #NathanielBranden
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Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. #LuXun
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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. #MahatmaGandhi
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[Tom Harkin] introduced legislation that would have banned imports made by workers under the age of fourteen. Bangladeshi factories promptly fired tens of thousands of these young girls, and many of them ended up in brothels and are presumably now dead of AIDS. #NicholasDKristof
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[Tom Harkin] introduced legislation that would have banned imports made by workers under the age of fourteen. Bangladeshi factories promptly fired tens of thousands of these young girls, and many of them ended up in brothels and are presumably now dead of AIDS. #NicholasDKristof — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 19, 2023
Now what do you do? someone likes you, you don't like them back? You just pretend to be busy... forever. #AzizAnsari
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You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet. #FranzKafka
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You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet. #FranzKafka — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 19, 2023
I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath. #ThichNhatHanh
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Love needs to be nurtured and fed to survive; and our suffering also survives because we enable and feed it. We ruminate on suffering, regret, and sorrow. We chew on them, swallow them, bring them back up, and eat them again and again. #ThichNhatHanh
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At some point, everyone faces the same challenge on the journey of self-improvement: you have to fall in love with boredom. #JamesClear
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Almost imperceptibly you'll make the bar rise. This involves the same process as jogging every day to strengthen your muscles and develop a runner's physique. Add a stimulus and keep it up. And repeat. Patience is a must in this process, but I guarantee results... #HarukiMurakami
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Almost imperceptibly you'll make the bar rise. This involves the same process as jogging every day to strengthen your muscles and develop a runner's physique. Add a stimulus and keep it up. And repeat. Patience is a must in this process, but I guarantee results... #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 18, 2023
When we walk like (we are rushing), we print anxiety and sorrow on the earth. We have to walk in a way that we only print peace and serenity on the earth... Be aware of the contact between your feet and the earth. Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet #ThichNhatHanh
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When we walk like (we are rushing), we print anxiety and sorrow on the earth. We have to walk in a way that we only print peace and serenity on the earth... Be aware of the contact between your feet and the earth. Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet #ThichNhatHanh — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 17, 2023
Welcome to the real world of marriage, where hairs are always on the sink and little white spots cover the mirror [...] In this world, a look can hurt and a word can crush. Intimate lovers can become enemies, and marriage a battlefield. #GaryChapman
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[Nonviolent Communication] NVC heightens our awareness that what others say and do may be the stimulus, but never the cause, of our feelings. #MarshallRosenberg
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. #JohannHari
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We live in a gap between what we know we should do and what we feel we can do #JohannHari
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Having nothing to hide relieves stress and builds trust. #RayDalio
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When I give up the fish, I get [...] that thing I had been searching for: a mantra, a trick, a prescription for hope [...] Not because I worked for them. But because they are as much a part of Chaos as destruction and loss. Life, the flip side of death. Growth, of rot #LuluMiller
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When I give up the fish, I get [...] that thing I had been searching for: a mantra, a trick, a prescription for hope [...] Not because I worked for them. But because they are as much a part of Chaos as destruction and loss. Life, the flip side of death. Growth, of rot #LuluMiller — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 16, 2023
Barbadoes, where slaves are numerous and objects of jealousy, punishments even for slight offences are very shocking; but in North America they are treated with the greatest mildness and humanity. Slavery is more severe in proportion to the culture of society. #AdamSmith
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Barbadoes, where slaves are numerous and objects of jealousy, punishments even for slight offences are very shocking; but in North America they are treated with the greatest mildness and humanity. Slavery is more severe in proportion to the culture of society. #AdamSmith — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 16, 2023
Now matter how much enthusiasm and effort you put into writing, if you totally lack literary talent you can forget about being a novelist. This is more of a prerequisite than a necessary quality. #HarukiMurakami
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To exist is to drink oneself without thirst. #AnnieErnaux
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If you begin to deviate from the straight and narrow path--if you begin to act improperly--people will react to your errors before they become too great... All that is left for you to do is watch, listen, and respond appropriately to the cues. #JordanPeterson
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If you begin to deviate from the straight and narrow path--if you begin to act improperly--people will react to your errors before they become too great... All that is left for you to do is watch, listen, and respond appropriately to the cues. #JordanPeterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 15, 2023
Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade, as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. But a modest assertion of one's own opinion, and a complaisant acquiescence in other people's, preserve dignity. #LordChesterfield
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Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade, as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. But a modest assertion of one's own opinion, and a complaisant acquiescence in other people's, preserve dignity. #LordChesterfield — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 14, 2023
When we bombard people with our evaluations of their character, intelligence, and the like, we may intimidate but we do not inspire growth, confidence, or self-respect. #NathanielBranden
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Every day, it's important to ask and answer these questions: 'What's good in my life?' and 'What needs to be done? #NathanielBranden
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Therapy is more about building new associations, making new, healthier default pathways. It is almost as if therapy is taking your two-lane dirt road and building a four-lane freeway alongside it. The old road stays, but you don't use it much anymore. #BruceDPerry
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Therapy is more about building new associations, making new, healthier default pathways. It is almost as if therapy is taking your two-lane dirt road and building a four-lane freeway alongside it. The old road stays, but you don't use it much anymore. #BruceDPerry — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 13, 2023
One way of imagining life is that it's a competition between love and death. Death always wins, of course, but love is there to make its victory a hollow one. That's what love is for. #RobertWebb
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Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change. #BreneBrown
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I don't subscribe to the theory that we only become truly adult when our parents die; we never become truly adult. #MichelHouellebecq
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Good marriages are built upon a combination of emotional love and a common commitment to a core of beliefs about what is important in life and what we wish to do with our lives. Speaking each other's primary love language creates the emotional climate... #GaryChapman
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Good marriages are built upon a combination of emotional love and a common commitment to a core of beliefs about what is important in life and what we wish to do with our lives. Speaking each other's primary love language creates the emotional climate... #GaryChapman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 12, 2023
Your regrets aren't what you did, but what you didn't do. So I take every opportunity. #CameronDiaz
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Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act. #LordChesterfield
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If you're patient and you know what you like, you'll find what you like in another person. There's going to be things you don't like about them. #AzizAnsari
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When we honor bad people or avoid good people, we are playing a role in degrading the world around us. It's a small role, almost negligible. But together, our combined actions are decisive. Each step we take away from loveliness is a step away from civilization. #RussRoberts
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When we honor bad people or avoid good people, we are playing a role in degrading the world around us. It's a small role, almost negligible. But together, our combined actions are decisive. Each step we take away from loveliness is a step away from civilization. #RussRoberts — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 11, 2023
Forgive me for stating the obvious, but the world is made up of all kinds of people. Other people have their own value to live by, and the same holds true with me. #HarukiMurakami
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Money to some extent sometimes lets you be in more interesting environments. But it can't change how many people love you or how healthy you are. #WarrenBuffett
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What kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one? What is the world like when it is experienced, developed and lived from the point of view of difference and not identity? That is what I believe love to be. #AlainBadiou
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What kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one? What is the world like when it is experienced, developed and lived from the point of view of difference and not identity? That is what I believe love to be. #AlainBadiou — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 10, 2023
You need to know who you want to be. #JamesClear
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We manage to avoid being happy while struggling to become happy, fulfilling one desire after the next, banishing our fears, grasping at pleasure, recoiling from pain -- and thinking, interminably, about how best to keep the whole works up and running. #SamHarris
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We manage to avoid being happy while struggling to become happy, fulfilling one desire after the next, banishing our fears, grasping at pleasure, recoiling from pain -- and thinking, interminably, about how best to keep the whole works up and running. #SamHarris — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 10, 2023
Books are to mankind what memory is to the individual. #JohnLubbock
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Throughout history, rulers have run up debts that won't come due until long after their own reigns are over, leaving it to their successors to pay the bill. #RayDalio
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Waiting for true love was a luxury that many, especially women, could not afford. #AzizAnsari
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Don't look for the next opportunity. The one you have in hand is the opportunity. #PaulArden
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Challenge a person's beliefs, and you challenge his dignity, standing, and power. And when those beliefs are based on nothing but faith, they are chronically fragile. #StevenPinker
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The desire of being believed, the desire of persuading, of leading, and directing other people, seems to be one of the strongest of all our natural desires. #AdamSmith
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How do we keep our inner fire alive? Two things, at minimum, are needed: an ability to appreciate the positives in our life--and a commitment to action. #NathanielBranden
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Buddhists present were shocked to hear I had participated in the Eucharist [...] To me, religious life is life. I do not see any reason to spend one's whole life tasting just one kind of fruit. We human beings can be nourished by the best values of many traditions. #ThichNhatHanh
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Buddhists present were shocked to hear I had participated in the Eucharist [...] To me, religious life is life. I do not see any reason to spend one's whole life tasting just one kind of fruit. We human beings can be nourished by the best values of many traditions. #ThichNhatHanh — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 7, 2023
Never fear conflict, never be afraid to tell the truth, and never be afraid to say what I really think. #GeneKim
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Good CEOs know that they should double down on the projects that are working and put more people, resources #JulieZhuo
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Positive, affirming relationships bring great pleasure while poor relationship brings great pain. Greatest happiness found in good relationships, greatest pain found in bad relationships #GaryChapman
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The more you ritualize the beginning of a process, the more likely it becomes that you can slip into the state of deep focus that is required to do great things. By doing the same warm-up before every workout, you make it easier to get into a state of peak performance #JamesClear
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The more you ritualize the beginning of a process, the more likely it becomes that you can slip into the state of deep focus that is required to do great things. By doing the same warm-up before every workout, you make it easier to get into a state of peak performance #JamesClear — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 6, 2023
Violence is as much a part of what is means to be poor as being hungry, sick, homeless, or jobless. In fact, as we shall see, violence is frequently the problem that poor people are most concerned about. It is one of the core reasons they are poor in the first place #GaryAHaugen
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Violence is as much a part of what is means to be poor as being hungry, sick, homeless, or jobless. In fact, as we shall see, violence is frequently the problem that poor people are most concerned about. It is one of the core reasons they are poor in the first place #GaryAHaugen — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 6, 2023
When the history of African development is written, it will be clear that a turning point involved the empowerment of women. #SherylWuDunn
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You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. #MahatmaGandhi
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It's always tempting to mistake your personal decline for the decline of the human species #JohannHari
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The ability to offer empathy to people in stressful situations can defuse potential violence. #MarshallRosenberg
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It's the kind of small town where most people spend their entire lives in the culture of their childhood. #ErinMeyer
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People with a sense of fulfillment think it is a good world and would like to conserve it as it is, while the frustrated favor radical change. #EricHoffer
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The way we measure productivity is flawed. People checking their BlackBerry over dinner is not the measure of productivity. #TimothyFerriss
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I was never less alone than when by myself. #EdwardGibbon
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In the past, people weren't looking for something boiling; they just needed some water. Once they found it and committed to a life together, they did their best to heat things up. Now, if things aren't boiling, committing to marriage seems premature. #AzizAnsari
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In the past, people weren't looking for something boiling; they just needed some water. Once they found it and committed to a life together, they did their best to heat things up. Now, if things aren't boiling, committing to marriage seems premature. #AzizAnsari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 3, 2023
Between a high, solid wall and an egg that breaks against it, I will always stand on the side of the egg. Yes, no matter how right the wall may be and how wrong the egg, I will stand with the egg. #HarukiMurakami
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There's a special place in hell for women who don't help other women. #SherylSandberg
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If motion doesn't lead to results, why do we do it? Sometimes we do it because we actually need to plan or learn more. But more often than not, we do it because motion allows us to feel like we're making progress without running the risk of failure. #JamesClear
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If motion doesn't lead to results, why do we do it? Sometimes we do it because we actually need to plan or learn more. But more often than not, we do it because motion allows us to feel like we're making progress without running the risk of failure. #JamesClear — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 2, 2023
The pursuit of happiness is a toxic value that has long defined our culture... Living well does not mean avoiding suffering; it means suffering for the right reasons. #MarkManson
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I have nothing to declare except my genius. #OscarWilde
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Thomas Jefferson explained the power of language with the help of an analogy: He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. #StevenPinker
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The greater a child's terror, and the earlier it is experienced, the harder it becomes to develop a strong and healthy sense of self. #NathanielBranden
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The ones we love often don't need our judgment--they need our prayers. #DianneFraser
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In certain areas of my life, I actively seek out solitude. Especially for someone in my line of work, solitude is, more or less, an inevitable circumstance. #HarukiMurakami
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