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Life is available only in the present moment. #ThichNhatHanh — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 1, 2023
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A writer like a cinematographer manipulates the viewer's perspective on an ongoing story with the verbal equivalent of camera angles and quick cuts. #StevenPinker
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...if they warn me Don't go or Don't do this I usually want to go and do it. This is the nature of novelists. Novelists are a special group. Unless they see it with their own eyes and touch them with their own hands they will not believe anything. #HarukiMurakami
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...if they warn me, Don't go or Don't do this, I usually want to go and do it. This is the nature of novelists. Novelists are a special group. Unless they see it with their own eyes and touch them with their own hands, they will not believe anything. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 30, 2023
If some issue seems exceptionally important to you make the effort to read the relevant scientific literature. #YuvalNoahHarari
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...propose taking sexism to be the branch of patriarchal ideology that justifies and rationalizes a patriarchal social order and misogyny as the system that polices and enforces its governing norms and expectations. So sexism is scientific; misogyny is moralistic. #KateManne
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...propose taking sexism to be the branch of patriarchal ideology that justifies and rationalizes a patriarchal social order, and misogyny as the system that polices and enforces its governing norms and expectations. So sexism is scientific; misogyny is moralistic. #KateManne — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 30, 2023
If you're flammable and have legs you are never blocking a fire exit. #BrianChristian
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Sometimes mess is more than just the easy choice--it's the optimal choice. #BrianChristian
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Not even the most prominent members of their profession were safe from the activist mob. Get on board with affirmative therapy--or lose your job and maybe your license. #AbigailShrier
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Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves. #EricHoffer
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My goal is no longer to get more done but rather to have less to do. #FrancineJay
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If in life we are surrounded by death then in the health of our intellect we are surrounded by madness. #LudwigWittgenstein
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The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. #OscarWilde
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Though confidence in science has remained steady for decades confidence in universities is sinking. A major reason for the mistrust is the universities' suffocating left-wing monoculture with its punishment of students and professors who question dogmas... #StevenPinker
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Though confidence in science has remained steady for decades, confidence in universities is sinking. A major reason for the mistrust is the universities' suffocating left-wing monoculture, with its punishment of students and professors who question dogmas... #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 29, 2023
You didn't marry each other because you were madly in love; you married because you could make a family together. #AzizAnsari
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The difference between the most dissimilar characters between a philosopher and a common street porter for example seems to arise not so much from nature as from habit custom and education. #AdamSmith
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It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood #JeffSutherland
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It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood #JeffSutherland — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 28, 2023
...this great infusion of moral authority gave blacks the power to imprint the national consciousness with a profound new edict an unwritten law more enforceable than many actual laws #ShelbySteele
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The first principle of monotheist religions is 'God exists. What does He want from me?' The first principle of Buddhism is 'Suffering exists. How do I escape it? #YuvalNoahHarari
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Rather than sweeping romantic gestures or grand overtures it is these tiny courtesies that create the foundation for the love we seek. If they are missing the foundation will weaken over time. #SusanPiver
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Remember your philosophy: one cannot reason that there's no such thing as reason or that something is true or good because God said it is. And remember your psychology: much of what we know isn't so especially when our comrades know it too. #StevenPinker
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Remember your philosophy: one cannot reason that there's no such thing as reason, or that something is true or good because God said it is. And remember your psychology: much of what we know isn't so, especially when our comrades know it too. #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 27, 2023
In the early twenty-first century politics is bereft of grand visions. Government has become mere administration. It manages the country but it no longer leads it. #YuvalNoahHarari
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Many desirable things are advocated without regard to the most fundamental fact of economics that resources are inherently limited and have alternative uses. #ThomasSowell
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One of the greatest fictions of all is to deny the complexity of the world and think in absolute terms #YuvalNoahHarari
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High-performing manufacturing operations require and actively promote learning [...] with line workers performing experiments in their daily work to generate new improvements enabled by rigorous standardization of work procedures and documentation of the results. #GeneKim
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High-performing manufacturing operations require and actively promote learning [...] with line workers performing experiments in their daily work to generate new improvements, enabled by rigorous standardization of work procedures and documentation of the results. #GeneKim — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 26, 2023
Change is always stressful and the hectic world of the early twenty-first century has produced a global epidemic of stress. #YuvalNoahHarari
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After you pass a certain age things you were able to do easily aren't so easy anymore--just as a fastball pitcher's speed starts to slip away with time. #HarukiMurakami
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Practice creates habits and habits create mastery of any process or skill. #GeneKim
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Given the costs of information the perfect can be the enemy of good. #StevenPinker
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Laugh and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone. #RobertStevenson
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Don't let fears of what others think of you stand in your way. You must be willing to do things in the unique ways you think are best. #RayDalio
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[David Starr Jordan] claims that salvation lies in the electricity of our bodies. Happiness comes from doing helping working loving fighting conquering he writes in a syllabus from around the same time from the exercise of functions; from self-activity. #LuluMiller
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[David Starr Jordan] claims that salvation lies in the electricity of our bodies. Happiness comes from doing, helping, working, loving, fighting, conquering, he writes in a syllabus from around the same time, from the exercise of functions; from self-activity. #LuluMiller — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 25, 2023
Only the nations of Europe and their descendants allow themselves to be judged by their lowest moments. #DouglasMurray
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Just as the Atlantic slave trade did not stem from hatred towards Africans so the modern animal industry is not motivated by animosity. Again it is fuelled by indifference. #YuvalNoahHarari
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It is humiliating to realize that when you drive yourself underground when you fake who you are often you do so for people you do not even like or respect. #NathanielBranden
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Never enter the place from whence so few have been able to return; never come within the circle of ambition; nor ever bring yourself into comparison with those masters of the earth who have already engrossed the attention of half mankind before you. #AdamSmith
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Never enter the place from whence so few have been able to return; never come within the circle of ambition; nor ever bring yourself into comparison with those masters of the earth who have already engrossed the attention of half mankind before you. #AdamSmith — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 24, 2023
Pain is pain fear is fear and love is love--even in the matrix. It doesn't matter if the fear you feel is inspired by a collection of atoms in the outside world or by electrical signals manipulated by a computer. The fear is still real. #YuvalNoahHarari
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Pain is pain, fear is fear, and love is love--even in the matrix. It doesn't matter if the fear you feel is inspired by a collection of atoms in the outside world or by electrical signals manipulated by a computer. The fear is still real. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 24, 2023
Since all countries around the world began poor what requires an explanation is not why there is poverty but how some countries rose out of poverty to become prosperous. #ThomasSowell
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something. #Plato
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Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all. #PeterDrucker
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...told to smile or asked what she's thinking by many a (male) stranger--especially when she appears to be deep inside her own head or off in her own little world i.e. appearing to think her own thoughts her attention inwardly rather than outwardly focused. #KateManne
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...told to smile or asked what she's thinking by many a (male) stranger--especially when she appears to be deep inside her own head or off in her own little world, i.e., appearing to think her own thoughts, her attention inwardly, rather than outwardly, focused. #KateManne — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 23, 2023
...founders of nationalist movements do not even belong to the country they have glorified. Sometimes they are outright foreigners or more often they come from peripheral areas where nationality is doubtful. Examples are Stalin Hitler Napoleon #GeorgeOrwell
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...founders of nationalist movements, do not even belong to the country they have glorified. Sometimes they are outright foreigners, or more often they come from peripheral areas where nationality is doubtful. Examples are Stalin, Hitler, Napoleon #GeorgeOrwell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 23, 2023
The gradual replacement of lives for souls as the locus of moral value was helped along by the ascendancy of skepticism and reason. #StevenPinker
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Rather than struggling to become bigger fish we might concentrate our energies on finding smaller ponds or smaller species to swim with so our own size will trouble us less. #AlaindeBotton
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It may not be in your power may not be in your time that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. #MahatmaGandhi
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Be wiser than other people if you can but do not tell them so. #LordChesterfield
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The upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance. #SherylSandberg
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Staying vulnerable is a risk we have to take if we want to experience connection. #BreneBrown
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Don't mistake possibilities for probabilities. Anything is possible. It's the probabilities that matter. Everything must be weighed in terms of its likelihood and prioritized. #RayDalio
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Children who survive extremely adverse childhoods have learned [...] 'strategic detachment.' This is not the withdrawal from reality that leads to psychological disturbance but an intuitively calibrated disengagement from noxious aspects of their family life... #NathanielBranden
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Children who survive extremely adverse childhoods have learned [...] 'strategic detachment.' This is not the withdrawal from reality that leads to psychological disturbance, but an intuitively calibrated disengagement from noxious aspects of their family life... #NathanielBranden — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 21, 2023
Classic writing with its assumption of equality between writer and reader makes the reader feel like a genius. Bad writing makes the reader feel like a dunce. #StevenPinker
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We do not realize the full extent of the difference between near and far futures. #NassimNicholasTaleb
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People who live their lives watching what goes on around them trying not to make waves and looking for the easy compromise are not going to be able to do creative work whatever their field. #HarukiMurakami
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Anxiety the illness of our time comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment. #ThichNhatHanh
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It takes a lot of courage to fight biases and oppressive regimes but it takes even greater courage to admit ignorance and venture into the unknown. #YuvalNoahHarari
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Consistency is the playground of dull minds. #YuvalNoahHarari
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Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself the life-and-death struggle people went through is now like something from the distant past. We're so caught up in our everyday lives that events of the past are no longer in orbit around our minds. #HarukiMurakami
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Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through is now like something from the distant past. We're so caught up in our everyday lives that events of the past are no longer in orbit around our minds. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 19, 2023
Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we yearn for something we cannot afford we grow poorer whatever our resources. And every time we feel satisfied with what we have we can be counted as rich however little we may actually possess. #AlaindeBotton
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Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we yearn for something we cannot afford, we grow poorer, whatever our resources. And every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 19, 2023
In human beings joy in the simple fact of existence is a core meaning of healthy self esteem. Thus understood how can you possibly have too much of it? #NathanielBranden
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We humans are not just a superficial race (this may be curable to some extent); we are a very unfair one. #NassimNicholasTaleb
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But a century later it appeared to have become normal and indeed acceptable for women born with all the rights their forebears had fought for to react with more violent language than had been employed when the stakes were infinitely higher. #DouglasMurray
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But a century later it appeared to have become normal and indeed acceptable for women born with all the rights their forebears had fought for to react with more violent language than had been employed when the stakes were infinitely higher. #DouglasMurray — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 18, 2023
Hope for this. Hope for the infinite opportunity and oppression present in every single moment. Hope for the suffering that comes with freedom. For the pain that comes from happiness. For the wisdom that comes from ignorance. For the power that comes from surrender. #MarkManson
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Hope for this. Hope for the infinite opportunity and oppression present in every single moment. Hope for the suffering that comes with freedom. For the pain that comes from happiness. For the wisdom that comes from ignorance. For the power that comes from surrender. #MarkManson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 18, 2023
This idea that in order to make a decision you need to focus on the consequences (which you can know) rather than the probability (which you can't know) is the central idea of uncertainty. #NassimNicholasTaleb
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[Critics] may not be able to adjust to the slower vehicle that is the novel. As a result they translate the pace of the text into the faster pace that is natural to them and then construct their critique in line with their version. #HarukiMurakami
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Whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent. #LudwigWittgenstein
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We grasp at transitory pleasures. We brood about the past and worry about the future. We continually seek to prop up and defend an egoic self that doesn't exist. #SamHarris
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Our passionate preoccupation with the sun the stars and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from. #EricHoffer
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Rule of thumb for delegation goes like this: spend your time and energy on the intersection of 1) what's most important to the organization and 2) what you're uniquely able to do better than anyone else. From this you can extrapolate that anything your report can do #JulieZhuo
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Rule of thumb for delegation goes like this: spend your time and energy on the intersection of 1) what's most important to the organization and 2) what you're uniquely able to do better than anyone else. From this, you can extrapolate that anything your report can do #JulieZhuo — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 17, 2023
Absolute contingency of the encounter with someone I didn't know finally takes on the appearance of destiny. The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny and that's why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright. #AlainBadiou
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Absolute contingency of the encounter with someone I didn't know finally takes on the appearance of destiny. The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny, and that's why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright. #AlainBadiou — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 17, 2023
How can I find a firm ethical ground in a world that extends far beyond my horizons that spins completely out of human control and that holds all gods and ideologies suspect? #YuvalNoahHarari
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The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world. #AleksandrSolzhenitsyn
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Imagine two people resisting a cigarette [...] No thanks. I'm trying to quit. [...] No thanks. I'm not a smoker. It's a small difference but this statement signals a shift in identity. Smoking was part of their former life not their current one. #JamesClear
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Imagine two people resisting a cigarette [...] No thanks. I'm trying to quit. [...] No thanks. I'm not a smoker. It's a small difference, but this statement signals a shift in identity. Smoking was part of their former life, not their current one. #JamesClear — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 16, 2023
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. #JosephAddison
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Measure success in life by effort and doing your best then it is always in your hands to succeed and be proud of yourself. #StevePeters
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It is easy for optimism to be undermined and demolished however if it is naive and for cynicism to arise in its place. But the act of peering into the darkness as deeply as possible reveals a light that appears unquenchable and that is a profound surprise... #JordanPeterson
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It is easy for optimism to be undermined and demolished, however, if it is naive, and for cynicism to arise in its place. But the act of peering into the darkness as deeply as possible reveals a light that appears unquenchable, and that is a profound surprise... #JordanPeterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 15, 2023
The careless demolition of tradition is the invitation to the (re)emergence of chaos. When ignorance destroys culture monsters will emerge. #JordanPeterson
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In most cases learning something essential in life requires physical pain. #HarukiMurakami
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To persevere with the will to understand in the face of obstacles is the heroism of consciousness. #NathanielBranden
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Consider a turkey that is fed every day. Every single feeding will firm up the bird’s belief that it is the general rule of life to be fed every day by friendly members of the human race “looking out for its best interests,” as a politician would say. On the afternoon of the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, something unexpected will happen to the turkey. It will incur a revision of belief. #NassimNicholasTaleb
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Every single feeding will firm up the [turkey's] belief that it is the general rule of life to be fed every day by friendly members of the human race [...] On the afternoon of the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, something unexpected will happen to the turkey. #NassimNicholasTaleb — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 14, 2023
Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said. #JeanRostand
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Government is not the solution to our problem government is the problem. #RonaldReagan
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Introverts dislike small talk but we are fluent in the language of ideas and dreams. #MichaelaChung
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When nothing seems to help I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the 101st blow it will split in two it was not that last blow that did it--but all that had gone before. #JamesClear
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When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the 101st blow it will split in two, it was not that last blow that did it--but all that had gone before. #JamesClear — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 13, 2023
'What do you want to be when you grow up then, boy?' he asks. I do the usual. 'Computers.' It's the fastest way to close down this sensitive line of enquiry. Nobody over twenty has the faintest idea what a job involving computers could possibly mean, so it works well. #RobertWebb
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'What do you want to be when you grow up then, boy?' he asks. I do the usual. 'Computers.' It's the fastest way to close down this sensitive line of enquiry. Nobody over twenty has the faintest idea what a job involving computers could possibly mean, so it works well. #RobertWebb — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 13, 2023
If you put shampoo into a car engine, you're not going to scratch your head when the thing conks out,' [Dale Pinnock] said. Yet every day [...] we are putting into our bodies substances 'which are so far removed from what was intended for human fuel. #JohannHari
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If you put shampoo into a car engine, you're not going to scratch your head when the thing conks out,' [Dale Pinnock] said. Yet every day [...] we are putting into our bodies substances 'which are so far removed from what was intended for human fuel. #JohannHari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 13, 2023
[Healing is] revisiting the shattered hull of your old worldview; you sift through the wreckage looking for what remains, seeking your broken pieces...as you revisit the ship-wreck, piece by piece, you find a fragment and move it to your new, safer place #BruceDPerry
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[Healing is] revisiting the shattered hull of your old worldview; you sift through the wreckage looking for what remains, seeking your broken pieces...as you revisit the ship-wreck, piece by piece, you find a fragment and move it to your new, safer place #BruceDPerry — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 13, 2023
There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people. #AdamSmith
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How seldom we notice rooftops; how easily our eyes are drawn to the more flamboyant attractions of a Roman temple or Renaissance church. #AlaindeBotton
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In Chinese culture, pang qiao ce ji [beating around the bush] is a style that nurtures an implicit understanding. #ErinMeyer
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With his Policraticus (1159), John of Salisbury had become the most famous Christian writer to compare society to a human body and to use that analogy to justify a system of natural inequality. #AlaindeBotton
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I realized it was not my circumstances that caused my stress but my habits. #CelesteHeadlee
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The more you think life is about having stuff and superiority and showing it off, the more unhappy, and the more depressed and anxious, you will be. #JohannHari
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Ordinary people may not understand artificial intelligence and biotechnology, but they can sense that the future is passing them by. #YuvalNoahHarari
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When culture disintegrates--because it refuses to be aware of its own pathology; because the visionary hero is absent--it descends into the chaos that underlies everything #JordanPeterson
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The limits of my language mean the limits of my world. #LudwigWittgenstein
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If you survive until tomorrow, it could mean that either a) you are more likely to be immortal or b) that you are closer to death. #NassimNicholasTaleb
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Chances are, when you were young, you were told, in effect, Listen, kid [...] Life is about doing what others expect of you. If you accepted this idea, later on you wondered what had happened to your fire. Where had your enthusiasm for living gone? #NathanielBranden
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Chances are, when you were young, you were told, in effect, Listen, kid [...] Life is about doing what others expect of you. If you accepted this idea, later on you wondered what had happened to your fire. Where had your enthusiasm for living gone? #NathanielBranden — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 10, 2023
It is my strong belief that [...] with exploding technological progress that will greatly increase worker productivity, we can finally end austerity economics and achieve the long-sought human dream of providing a decent standard of living for all. #BernieSanders
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It is my strong belief that [...] with exploding technological progress that will greatly increase worker productivity, we can finally end austerity economics and achieve the long-sought human dream of providing a decent standard of living for all. #BernieSanders — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 10, 2023
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. #LaoTzu
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Life is basically unfair. But even in a situation that's unfair, I think it's possible to seek out a kind of fairness [...] that might take time and effort. And maybe it won't seem to be worth all that. It's up to each individual to decide whether or not it is. #HarukiMurakami
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Life is basically unfair. But even in a situation that's unfair, I think it's possible to seek out a kind of fairness [...] that might take time and effort. And maybe it won't seem to be worth all that. It's up to each individual to decide whether or not it is. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 10, 2023
Love is a choice you make every day. #GaryChapman
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I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. #LudwigWittgenstein
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All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure. #MarkTwain
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Though gods can inspire us to act compassionately, religious faith is not a necessary condition for moral behavior. #YuvalNoahHarari
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They put up with such strenuous training, and where did their thoughts, their hopes and dreams, disappear to? When people pass away, do their thoughts just vanish? #HarukiMurakami
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Cultural memory pacifies the past, leaving us with pale souvenirs whose bloody origins have been bleached away. #StevenPinker
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Since we might soon be able to engineer our desires too, perhaps the real questions facing us is not 'What do we want to become?', but What do we want to want?' Those who are not spooked by this question probably haven't given it enough thought. #YuvalNoahHarari
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Since we might soon be able to engineer our desires too, perhaps the real questions facing us is not 'What do we want to become?', but What do we want to want?' Those who are not spooked by this question probably haven't given it enough thought. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 8, 2023
I dare to hope that one day... the news media will no longer have incentives to optimize content for emotional impact but, rather, for informational utility; that technology will seek not to exploit our psychological fragility but, rather, to counterbalance it. #MarkManson
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I dare to hope that one day... the news media will no longer have incentives to optimize content for emotional impact but, rather, for informational utility; that technology will seek not to exploit our psychological fragility but, rather, to counterbalance it. #MarkManson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 8, 2023
Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost. #MilanKundera
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It is this idea 'decency' should be attached to wealth -and 'indecency'' to poverty--that forms the core of one strand of skeptical complaint against the modern status-ideal. #AlaindeBotton
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It is naive to think that self-assertiveness is easy. To live self-assertively--which means to live authentically--is an act of high courage. That is why so many people spend the better part of their lives in hiding--from others and also from themselves. #NathanielBranden
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It is naive to think that self-assertiveness is easy. To live self-assertively--which means to live authentically--is an act of high courage. That is why so many people spend the better part of their lives in hiding--from others and also from themselves. #NathanielBranden — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 8, 2023
I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary. #VictorHugo
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Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. #AdamSmith
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We don't feel the need for the church as a social centre anymore. We have a new religion. Consumerism. Supermarkets are the new cathedrals. #PaulArden
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When by an increase in the effectual demand, the market price of some particular commodity happens to rise a good deal above the natural price, those who employ their stocks in supplying that market are generally careful to conceal this change. #AdamSmith
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When by an increase in the effectual demand, the market price of some particular commodity happens to rise a good deal above the natural price, those who employ their stocks in supplying that market are generally careful to conceal this change. #AdamSmith — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 7, 2023
Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas? #JosefStalin
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[Modern high-status ideal] is guilty of effecting a gigantic distortion of priorities, of elevating to the highest level of achievement a process of material accumulation that should instead be only one of many factors determining the direction of our lives... #AlaindeBotton
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[Modern high-status ideal] is guilty of effecting a gigantic distortion of priorities, of elevating to the highest level of achievement a process of material accumulation that should instead be only one of many factors determining the direction of our lives... #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 6, 2023
Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase. #MartinLutherKingJr
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Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart. #HarukiMurakami
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There are no longer natural famines in the world; there are only political famines. If people in Syria, Sudan or Somalia starve to death, it is because some politician wants them to. #YuvalNoahHarari
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What you consider to be myself is just an accumulation of habits, predispositions, and tendencies you have acquired over time without being conscious of the process. #Sadhguru
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So, monotheism explains order, but is mystified by evil. Dualism explains evil, but is puzzled by order. There is one logical way of solving the riddle: to argue that there is a single omnipotent God who created the entire universe--and He's evil. #YuvalNoahHarari
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So, monotheism explains order, but is mystified by evil. Dualism explains evil, but is puzzled by order. There is one logical way of solving the riddle: to argue that there is a single omnipotent God who created the entire universe--and He's evil. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 5, 2023
I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone. #CharlesDarwin
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This is Steve's company. This is still Steve's company. It was born that way; it's still that way. And so his spirit, I think, will always be the DNA of this company. #TimCook
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We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. #CharlieChaplin
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Thinking, even when thinking is difficult, vs nonthinking. Awareness, even when awareness is challenging, vs unawareness. Clarity, whether or not it comes easily, vs obscurity [...] Respect for reality, whether pleasant or painful, vs avoidance of reality #NathanielBranden
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Thinking, even when thinking is difficult, vs nonthinking. Awareness, even when awareness is challenging, vs unawareness. Clarity, whether or not it comes easily, vs obscurity [...] Respect for reality, whether pleasant or painful, vs avoidance of reality #NathanielBranden — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 4, 2023
When I'm criticized unjustly (from my own viewpoint, at least), or when someone I'm sure will understand me doesn't, I go running for a little longer than usual. By running longer it's like I can physically exhaust that portion of my discontent. #HarukiMurakami
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When I'm criticized unjustly (from my own viewpoint, at least), or when someone I'm sure will understand me doesn't, I go running for a little longer than usual. By running longer it's like I can physically exhaust that portion of my discontent. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 4, 2023
The manner in which people and movements behave at the point of victory can be the most revealing thing about them. #DouglasMurray
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If you're young and talented, it's like you have wings. #HarukiMurakami
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Why was I with her? She reminds me of you. In fact, she reminds me more of you than you do! #GrouchoMarx
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There is the mud, and there is the lotus that grows out of the mud. We need the mud in order to make the lotus. #ThichNhatHanh
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Everyone, including the women who said they were happily married, said they wanted their daughters and granddaughters to approach marriage differently from how they had. #AzizAnsari
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We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us. #JohannWolfgangvonGoethe
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Perhaps the essence of our evolution as human beings is to keep answering, on deeper and deeper levels, the basic question: Who am I? #NathanielBranden
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You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results. #MahatmaGandhi
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...whereas higher temperatures are likely to turn Chad into a desert, they might simultaneously turn Siberia into the breadbasket of the world. #YuvalNoahHarari
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