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One of the fundamental paths to sympathy is the power to hold on, in the most challenging situations, to a distinction between a person's overt unpleasant actions and the more pitiable motives that may underlie them. #TheSchoolOfLife

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One of the fundamental paths to sympathy is the power to hold on, in the most challenging situations, to a distinction between a person's overt unpleasant actions and the more pitiable motives that may underlie them. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 27, 2024
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Going forward, in a calculated fight against the spirit of the age, we might do well to ask all new acquaintances not what they do but what they have been thinking or daydreaming about recently. #TheSchoolOfLife

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Going forward, in a calculated fight against the spirit of the age, we might do well to ask all new acquaintances not what they do but what they have been thinking or daydreaming about recently. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 26, 2024
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So politeness doesn't so much deny what one is genuinely feeling as provide a greater opportunity to discover one's emotions more accurately. #TheSchoolOfLife

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So politeness doesn't so much deny what one is genuinely feeling as provide a greater opportunity to discover one's emotions more accurately. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 26, 2024
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So a novel by Jane Austen is taken apart until a delicate work of fiction is turned instead into nothing more than another piece of guilty residue from a discredited civilization. What has been achieved in this? Nothing but a process of destruction. #DouglasMurray

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So a novel by Jane Austen is taken apart until a delicate work of fiction is turned instead into nothing more than another piece of guilty residue from a discredited civilization. What has been achieved in this? Nothing but a process of destruction. #DouglasMurray — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 26, 2024
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Since news is what happens, not what doesn't happen, the denominator in the fraction corresponding to the true probability of an event--all the opportunities for the event to occur, including those in which it doesn't--is invisible, leaving us in the dark... #StevenPinker

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Since news is what happens, not what doesn't happen, the denominator in the fraction corresponding to the true probability of an event--all the opportunities for the event to occur, including those in which it doesn't--is invisible, leaving us in the dark... #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 26, 2024
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we should also rearticulate alternative models of love, models in which masculinity and passionate commitment are not incompatible and are even synonymous. #EvaIllouz

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we should also rearticulate alternative models of love, models in which masculinity and passionate commitment are not incompatible and are even synonymous. #EvaIllouz — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 26, 2024
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But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. #HarukiMurakami

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But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 25, 2024
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To Lao-tse, the world was not a setter of traps but a teacher of valuable lessons. Its lessons needed to be learned, just as its laws needed to be followed; then all would go well. #BenjaminHoff

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To Lao-tse, the world was not a setter of traps but a teacher of valuable lessons. Its lessons needed to be learned, just as its laws needed to be followed; then all would go well. #BenjaminHoff — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 25, 2024
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From a sexual selection viewpoint, moral philosophy and political theory have mostly been attempts to shift male human sexual competitiveness from physical violence to the peaceful accumulation of wealth and status. #GeoffreyMiller

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From a sexual selection viewpoint, moral philosophy and political theory have mostly been attempts to shift male human sexual competitiveness from physical violence to the peaceful accumulation of wealth and status. #GeoffreyMiller — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 25, 2024
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We see that our feelings result from how we choose to receive what others say and do, as well as from our particular needs and expectations in that moment [...] we are led to accept responsibility for what we do to generate our own feelings. #MarshallRosenberg

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We see that our feelings result from how we choose to receive what others say and do, as well as from our particular needs and expectations in that moment [...] we are led to accept responsibility for what we do to generate our own feelings. #MarshallRosenberg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 25, 2024
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Action expresses priorities. #MahatmaGandhi

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Action expresses priorities. #MahatmaGandhi — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 24, 2024
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One must speak for a struggle for a new culture, that is, for a new moral life that cannot but be intimately connected to a new intuition of life, until it becomes a new way of feeling and seeing reality. #AntonioGramsci

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One must speak for a struggle for a new culture, that is, for a new moral life that cannot but be intimately connected to a new intuition of life, until it becomes a new way of feeling and seeing reality. #AntonioGramsci — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 24, 2024
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What usually helps us to decide what someone means to us is our sense of what we mean to them. #AlaindeBotton

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What usually helps us to decide what someone means to us is our sense of what we mean to them. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 24, 2024
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline. #AlainBadiou

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Those who have nothing have only their discipline. #AlainBadiou — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 23, 2024
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If you make selfish, cruel, or disorganized choices, then you are slowly turning this core thing inside yourself into something that is degraded, inconstant, or fragmented. #DavidBrooks

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If you make selfish, cruel, or disorganized choices, then you are slowly turning this core thing inside yourself into something that is degraded, inconstant, or fragmented. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 23, 2024
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Anyone can be polite and good. The valuable achievement is to learn how to be different, authentic and 'bad'--that is, to allow ourselves to be known. #TheSchoolOfLife

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Anyone can be polite and good. The valuable achievement is to learn how to be different, authentic and 'bad'--that is, to allow ourselves to be known. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 23, 2024
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Trigger warnings are counter-therapeutic because they encourage avoidance of reminders of trauma, and avoidance maintains PTSD. #JonathanHaidt

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Trigger warnings are counter-therapeutic because they encourage avoidance of reminders of trauma, and avoidance maintains PTSD. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 23, 2024
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By overwhelming consensus, our culture locates the primary difficulty of relationships in finding the 'right' person rather than in knowing how to love a real--that is, a necessarily rather unright--human being. #AlaindeBotton

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By overwhelming consensus, our culture locates the primary difficulty of relationships in finding the 'right' person rather than in knowing how to love a real--that is, a necessarily rather unright--human being. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 22, 2024
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[In Switzerland's largest city] the need to own a car in order to avoid sharing a bus or train with strangers loses some of the urgency it has in Los Angeles or London, thanks to Zurich's superlative train network, which is clean, safe, warm and edifying... #AlaindeBotton

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[In Switzerland's largest city] the need to own a car in order to avoid sharing a bus or train with strangers loses some of the urgency it has in Los Angeles or London, thanks to Zurich's superlative train network, which is clean, safe, warm and edifying... #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 22, 2024
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It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom. #AntoinedeSaintExupery

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It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom. #AntoinedeSaintExupery — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 22, 2024
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...adversity hypothesis, which says that people need adversity, setbacks, and perhaps even trauma to reach the highest levels of strength, fulfillment, and personal development. #JonathanHaidt

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...adversity hypothesis, which says that people need adversity, setbacks, and perhaps even trauma to reach the highest levels of strength, fulfillment, and personal development. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 21, 2024
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...passionate love dispels the uncertainty and insecurity inherent in most interactions, and in that sense provides a very important source for understanding and enacting what we care about. #EvaIllouz

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...passionate love dispels the uncertainty and insecurity inherent in most interactions, and in that sense provides a very important source for understanding and enacting what we care about. #EvaIllouz — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 21, 2024
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The path to success is never a straight line... it's about consistent planning and execution--you try what seems like a good idea. You do it quickly. You keep your mind open and curious. You learn. Then you scrap what failed and double down on what's working. #JulieZhuo

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The path to success is never a straight line... it's about consistent planning and execution--you try what seems like a good idea. You do it quickly. You keep your mind open and curious. You learn. Then you scrap what failed and double down on what's working. #JulieZhuo — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 21, 2024
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Breakthrough moments are often the result of many previous actions, which build up the potential required to unleash a major change. This pattern shows up everywhere. Cancer spends 80 percent of its life undetectable, then takes over the body in months. #JamesClear

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Breakthrough moments are often the result of many previous actions, which build up the potential required to unleash a major change. This pattern shows up everywhere. Cancer spends 80 percent of its life undetectable, then takes over the body in months. #JamesClear — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 21, 2024
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The troubadours did give us a particular myth of true love--the idea that real love burns brightly and passionately, and then it just keeps on burning until death, and then it just keeps on burning after death as the lovers are reunited in heaven. #JonathanHaidt

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The troubadours did give us a particular myth of true love--the idea that real love burns brightly and passionately, and then it just keeps on burning until death, and then it just keeps on burning after death as the lovers are reunited in heaven. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 20, 2024
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...we've transformed the world from a place of scarcity to a place of overwhelming abundance: Drugs, food, news, gambling, shopping, gaming, texting, sexting, Facebooking, Instagramming, YouTubing, tweeting... #AnnaLembke

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...we've transformed the world from a place of scarcity to a place of overwhelming abundance: Drugs, food, news, gambling, shopping, gaming, texting, sexting, Facebooking, Instagramming, YouTubing, tweeting... #AnnaLembke — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 20, 2024
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...as a novelist I am free to spend my life hardly seeing or talking to anyone for days at a time, and never appearing in the media. I rarely have to do anything that involves teamwork, and while it's best to have some colleagues, I don't especially need any. #HarukiMurakami

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...as a novelist I am free to spend my life hardly seeing or talking to anyone for days at a time, and never appearing in the media. I rarely have to do anything that involves teamwork, and while it's best to have some colleagues, I don't especially need any. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 20, 2024
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People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die. #HarukiMurakami

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People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 19, 2024
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Acedia is the quieting of passion. It is a lack of care. It is living a life that doesn't arouse your strong passions and therefore instills a sluggishness of the soul, like an oven set on warm. #DavidBrooks

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Acedia is the quieting of passion. It is a lack of care. It is living a life that doesn't arouse your strong passions and therefore instills a sluggishness of the soul, like an oven set on warm. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 19, 2024
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[Focus and endurance] are different from talent, since they can be acquired and sharpened through training. You'll naturally learn both concentration and endurance when you sit down every day at your desk and train yourself to focus on one point. #HarukiMurakami

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[Focus and endurance] are different from talent, since they can be acquired and sharpened through training. You'll naturally learn both concentration and endurance when you sit down every day at your desk and train yourself to focus on one point. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 19, 2024
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Nor could you consistently will that people cheat, lie, steal, or in any other way deprive other people of their rights or their property, for such evils would surely come back to visit you. #JonathanHaidt

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Nor could you consistently will that people cheat, lie, steal, or in any other way deprive other people of their rights or their property, for such evils would surely come back to visit you. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 19, 2024
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If you want your children to grow up to be healthy and independent, you should hold them, hug them, cuddle them... #JonathanHaidt

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If you want your children to grow up to be healthy and independent, you should hold them, hug them, cuddle them... #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 18, 2024
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You can keep as quiet as you like, but one of these days somebody is going to find you. #HarukiMurakami

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You can keep as quiet as you like, but one of these days somebody is going to find you. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 18, 2024
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A young man has hoped for a happy or useful or glorious life. If the man he has become looks upon these miscarried attempts of his adolescence with disillusioned indifference, there they are, forever frozen in the dead past. #SimonedeBeauvoir

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A young man has hoped for a happy or useful or glorious life. If the man he has become looks upon these miscarried attempts of his adolescence with disillusioned indifference, there they are, forever frozen in the dead past. #SimonedeBeauvoir — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 18, 2024
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We are tempted to believe that certain achievements and possessions will give us enduring satisfaction [...] we are not reminded that soon after gaining the summit, we will be called down again into fresh lowlands of anxiety and desire. #AlaindeBotton

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We are tempted to believe that certain achievements and possessions will give us enduring satisfaction [...] we are not reminded that soon after gaining the summit, we will be called down again into fresh lowlands of anxiety and desire. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 17, 2024
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And when you try too hard, it doesn't work. Try grabbing something quickly and precisely with a tensed-up arm; then relax and try it again. #BenjaminHoff

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And when you try too hard, it doesn't work. Try grabbing something quickly and precisely with a tensed-up arm; then relax and try it again. #BenjaminHoff — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 17, 2024
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...insofar as morality is a biological adaptation, it evolved not only as a device for putting Us ahead of Me, but as a device for putting Us ahead of Them. #JoshuaGreene

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...insofar as morality is a biological adaptation, it evolved not only as a device for putting Us ahead of Me, but as a device for putting Us ahead of Them. #JoshuaGreene — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 17, 2024
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In practice, randomness is fundamentally incomplete information. #NassimNicholasTaleb

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In practice, randomness is fundamentally incomplete information. #NassimNicholasTaleb — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 17, 2024
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We faced tremendous odds with an improbable chance of survival. Singapore was not a natural country but man-made, a trading post the British had developed into a nodal point in their worldwide maritime empire. We inherited the island without its hinterland... #LeeKuanYew

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We faced tremendous odds with an improbable chance of survival. Singapore was not a natural country but man-made, a trading post the British had developed into a nodal point in their worldwide maritime empire. We inherited the island without its hinterland... #LeeKuanYew — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 16, 2024
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Modern armies no longer line up in neat rows and charge each other from opposite sides of a battlefield... they still train that way... during marching drills. This practice is useful... not to prep for actual battle conditions, but to build trust and solidarity... #KevinSimler

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Modern armies no longer line up in neat rows and charge each other from opposite sides of a battlefield... they still train that way... during marching drills. This practice is useful... not to prep for actual battle conditions, but to build trust and solidarity... #KevinSimler — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 16, 2024
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A system can be successful in many different forms, not just the one you first envision. #JamesClear

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A system can be successful in many different forms, not just the one you first envision. #JamesClear — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 16, 2024
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. #MarcusAurelius

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. #MarcusAurelius — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 16, 2024
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When you are in survival mode, you do what it takes to survive. When you're beyond survival in your team's hierarchy of needs, then you can plan for the future and think about what you can do today that will help you achieve more in the months and years ahead. #JulieZhuo

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When you are in survival mode, you do what it takes to survive. When you're beyond survival in your team's hierarchy of needs, then you can plan for the future and think about what you can do today that will help you achieve more in the months and years ahead. #JulieZhuo — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 16, 2024
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After 1978, when China opened its door to the outside world after several decades of isolation, the Chinese were stunned by what they saw. Quite a few people adopted the opposite view: everything in the West was logical and scientific, and everything in China was ugly... #QianNing

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After 1978, when China opened its door to the outside world after several decades of isolation, the Chinese were stunned by what they saw. Quite a few people adopted the opposite view: everything in the West was logical and scientific, and everything in China was ugly... #QianNing — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 16, 2024
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How many times have you talked to yourself, reassured yourself or had battles within your own head? Often you have thoughts and feelings that you do not want and even carry out behaviours that you know at the time are not really what you want to do. #StevePeters

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How many times have you talked to yourself, reassured yourself or had battles within your own head? Often you have thoughts and feelings that you do not want and even carry out behaviours that you know at the time are not really what you want to do. #StevePeters — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 15, 2024
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Medical students would be jockeying to become defrailulation specialists, and Wall Street would be bidding up company stock prices. Instead, it was just geriatrics. The geriatric teams weren't doing lung biopsies or back surgery or insertion of automatic defrailers. #AtulGawande

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Medical students would be jockeying to become defrailulation specialists, and Wall Street would be bidding up company stock prices. Instead, it was just geriatrics. The geriatric teams weren't doing lung biopsies or back surgery or insertion of automatic defrailers. #AtulGawande — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 15, 2024
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Safetyism does not help students who suffer from anxiety and depression [...] safetyism is likely to make things even worse for students who already struggle with mood disorders. #JonathanHaidt

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Safetyism does not help students who suffer from anxiety and depression [...] safetyism is likely to make things even worse for students who already struggle with mood disorders. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 15, 2024
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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments. #AynRand

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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments. #AynRand — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 15, 2024
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Tribalism has recently been linked to specific neural systems. [...] It turns out that oxytocin, sometimes described as the cuddle chemical, is more discriminating than had previously been thought. #JoshuaGreene

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Tribalism has recently been linked to specific neural systems. [...] It turns out that oxytocin, sometimes described as the cuddle chemical, is more discriminating than had previously been thought. #JoshuaGreene — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 14, 2024
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Conservatives want schools to teach lessons that will create a positive and uniquely American identity, including a heavy dose of American history and civics, using English as the only national language. #JonathanHaidt

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Conservatives want schools to teach lessons that will create a positive and uniquely American identity, including a heavy dose of American history and civics, using English as the only national language. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 14, 2024
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Plato said that we are trapped inside a cave and know the world only through the shadows it casts on the wall. The skull is our cave, and mental representations are the shadows. #StevenPinker

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Plato said that we are trapped inside a cave and know the world only through the shadows it casts on the wall. The skull is our cave, and mental representations are the shadows. #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 14, 2024
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A failure is supposed to give you pause, shake you up, humble you. But that would be the end of being a fearless, creative thinker. #GeorgeLois

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A failure is supposed to give you pause, shake you up, humble you. But that would be the end of being a fearless, creative thinker. #GeorgeLois — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 14, 2024
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It's failure that charms, [as] others so need to hear external evidence of problems with which we are all too lonely: how un-normal our sex lives are; how arduous our careers are proving; how unsatisfactory our family can be; how worried we are [...] all the time #TheSchoolOfLife

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It's failure that charms, [as] others so need to hear external evidence of problems with which we are all too lonely: how un-normal our sex lives are; how arduous our careers are proving; how unsatisfactory our family can be; how worried we are [...] all the time #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 14, 2024
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...situating love in the context of asymmetrical power relations. But a flaw common to all of [the explanations] is their pathologizing of male behavior and their concomitant affirmation and praise of the female psyche and of the (presumably female) model of intimacy. #EvaIllouz

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...situating love in the context of asymmetrical power relations. But a flaw common to all of [the explanations] is their pathologizing of male behavior and their concomitant affirmation and praise of the female psyche and of the (presumably female) model of intimacy. #EvaIllouz — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 13, 2024
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Somehow, instead of holding on to the lifelong identity that was slipping away from him, he managed to redefine it. He moved his line in the sand. This is what it means to have autonomy #AtulGawande

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Somehow, instead of holding on to the lifelong identity that was slipping away from him, he managed to redefine it. He moved his line in the sand. This is what it means to have autonomy #AtulGawande — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 13, 2024
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Let dull critics feed upon the carcasses of plays; give me the taste and the dressing #LordChesterfield

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Let dull critics feed upon the carcasses of plays; give me the taste and the dressing #LordChesterfield — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 13, 2024
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I just run. I run in void. Or maybe I should put it the other way: I run in order to acquire a void. #HarukiMurakami

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I just run. I run in void. Or maybe I should put it the other way: I run in order to acquire a void. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 13, 2024
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For women in this era [before the 1960s], it seemed that marriage was the easiest way of acquiring the basic freedoms of adulthood. #AzizAnsari

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For women in this era [before the 1960s], it seemed that marriage was the easiest way of acquiring the basic freedoms of adulthood. #AzizAnsari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 13, 2024
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Peter Block, [a leading expert] on community, puts it, Talk to any poor person or vulnerable person and they can give you a long list of the services they have received. They are well serviced, but you often have to ask what in their life has fundamentally changed. #DavidBrooks

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Peter Block, [a leading expert] on community, puts it, Talk to any poor person or vulnerable person and they can give you a long list of the services they have received. They are well serviced, but you often have to ask what in their life has fundamentally changed. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 13, 2024
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Even prohibitions against masturbation--a private act if ever there was one--may serve a social function: A cooperative institution such as a church may increase its power by maintaining a monopoly on the blessing of marriages, blocking [other] sexual gratification. #JoshuaGreene

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Even prohibitions against masturbation--a private act if ever there was one--may serve a social function: A cooperative institution such as a church may increase its power by maintaining a monopoly on the blessing of marriages, blocking [other] sexual gratification. #JoshuaGreene — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 12, 2024
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The essence of the principle of the Uncarved Block is that things in their original simplicity contain their own natural power, power that is easily spoiled and lost when that simplicity is changed. #BenjaminHoff

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The essence of the principle of the Uncarved Block is that things in their original simplicity contain their own natural power, power that is easily spoiled and lost when that simplicity is changed. #BenjaminHoff — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 12, 2024
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Numerous lab experiments confirm that people are, indeed, pro-social punishers. The most famous such experiment was conducted by Ernst Fehr and Simon G踄hter, using what's called the Public Goods Game, a multiperson prisoner's dilemma [like] Tragedy of the Commons #JoshuaGreene

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Numerous lab experiments confirm that people are, indeed, pro-social punishers. The most famous such experiment was conducted by Ernst Fehr and Simon G踄hter, using what's called the Public Goods Game, a multiperson prisoner's dilemma [like] Tragedy of the Commons #JoshuaGreene — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 12, 2024
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We project our senses onto [extremophiles] and assume that they'd be in discomfort [but] their senses are tuned to the temperatures in which they live. A camel likely isn't distressed by the baking sun, and penguins probably don't mind huddling through an Antarctic storm. #EdYong

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We project our senses onto [extremophiles] and assume that they'd be in discomfort [but] their senses are tuned to the temperatures in which they live. A camel likely isn't distressed by the baking sun, and penguins probably don't mind huddling through an Antarctic storm. #EdYong — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 12, 2024
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Now I make it a point to go for a walk for an hour every day without my phone or anything else that could distract me. I let my thoughts float and find unexpected connections. #JohannHari

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Now I make it a point to go for a walk for an hour every day without my phone or anything else that could distract me. I let my thoughts float and find unexpected connections. #JohannHari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 12, 2024
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[On arete (excellence) and telos (purpose), Aristotle] used the metaphor that people are like archers, who need a clear target at which to aim. Without a target or goal, one is left with the animal default: Just let the elephant graze or roam where he pleases. #JonathanHaidt

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[On arete (excellence) and telos (purpose), Aristotle] used the metaphor that people are like archers, who need a clear target at which to aim. Without a target or goal, one is left with the animal default: Just let the elephant graze or roam where he pleases. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 11, 2024
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Certainly people fell in love during those thousands of years, sometimes with their own spouses. But marriage was not fundamentally about love. #StephanieCoontz

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Certainly people fell in love during those thousands of years, sometimes with their own spouses. But marriage was not fundamentally about love. #StephanieCoontz — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 11, 2024
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Just as a stream flows smoothly as long as it encounters no obstruction, so the nature of man and animal is such that we never really notice or become conscious of what is agreeable to our will; if we are to notice something, our will has to have been thwarted... #MarkManson

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Just as a stream flows smoothly as long as it encounters no obstruction, so the nature of man and animal is such that we never really notice or become conscious of what is agreeable to our will; if we are to notice something, our will has to have been thwarted... #MarkManson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 11, 2024
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'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read. #MarkTwain

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'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read. #MarkTwain — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 11, 2024
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...colleges that claim to select students on merit give an edge to the sons and daughters of the wealthy and the well-connected. According to this complaint, meritocracy is a myth, a distant promise yet to be redeemed. #MichaelSandel

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...colleges that claim to select students on merit give an edge to the sons and daughters of the wealthy and the well-connected. According to this complaint, meritocracy is a myth, a distant promise yet to be redeemed. #MichaelSandel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 11, 2024
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It isn't enough to be sometimes right in a relationship. We need to be generous enough in our love in order that our partner can admit when they are in the wrong. #TheSchoolOfLife

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It isn't enough to be sometimes right in a relationship. We need to be generous enough in our love in order that our partner can admit when they are in the wrong. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 11, 2024
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In short, reducing the set of mutually acceptable terms tends to reduce the set of mutually acceptable results, with both tenants and landlords ending up worse off on the whole, though in different ways. #ThomasSowell

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In short, reducing the set of mutually acceptable terms tends to reduce the set of mutually acceptable results, with both tenants and landlords ending up worse off on the whole, though in different ways. #ThomasSowell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 10, 2024
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A human appears out of nowhere--gets it--and then vanishes. And all of this begs the question: If I know that I am the tiniest speck of dust around for a split second only, then why was I so upset when my fantasy football team lost on Sunday? #TimUrban

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A human appears out of nowhere--gets it--and then vanishes. And all of this begs the question: If I know that I am the tiniest speck of dust around for a split second only, then why was I so upset when my fantasy football team lost on Sunday? #TimUrban — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 10, 2024
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It's time to initiate a massive international Manhattan-style project or Apollo-style program dedicated to addressing global sustainability in an integrated, systemic sense. #GeoffreyWest

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It's time to initiate a massive international Manhattan-style project or Apollo-style program dedicated to addressing global sustainability in an integrated, systemic sense. #GeoffreyWest — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 10, 2024
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We hate the way we are because, somewhere in our evolution, we picked up some unyielding ideas about the way we should be: what we should have achieved, how many mistakes we should have made, how we should look, what others should be saying about us. #TheSchoolOfLife

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We hate the way we are because, somewhere in our evolution, we picked up some unyielding ideas about the way we should be: what we should have achieved, how many mistakes we should have made, how we should look, what others should be saying about us. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 10, 2024
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Great authors turn vagueness into clarity. #TheSchoolOfLife

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Great authors turn vagueness into clarity. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 10, 2024
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When Descartes said 'I think, therefore I am,' he had not discovered 'the most fundamental truth', Tolle insists; instead, he had given expression to 'the most basic error' #OliverBurkeman

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When Descartes said 'I think, therefore I am,' he had not discovered 'the most fundamental truth', Tolle insists; instead, he had given expression to 'the most basic error' #OliverBurkeman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 9, 2024
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People have been cheating on each other for as long as they've made promises to be monogamous #AzizAnsari

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People have been cheating on each other for as long as they've made promises to be monogamous #AzizAnsari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 9, 2024
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Emotions are activated by a general and undifferentiated state of arousal, which becomes an emotion only when appropriately labeled. For example, the same general state of arousal could trigger either fear or infatuation, depending on environmental cues. #EvaIllouz

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Emotions are activated by a general and undifferentiated state of arousal, which becomes an emotion only when appropriately labeled. For example, the same general state of arousal could trigger either fear or infatuation, depending on environmental cues. #EvaIllouz — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 9, 2024
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I recommend you to take care of the minutes: for hours will take care of themselves. #LordChesterfield

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I recommend you to take care of the minutes: for hours will take care of themselves. #LordChesterfield — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 9, 2024
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This concept is intuitive, and yet when we watch extremophiles [...] it's easy to think that they are suffering throughout their lives. We admire them not just for their physiological resilience but also for their psychological fortitude. We project our senses onto theirs #EdYong

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This concept is intuitive, and yet when we watch extremophiles [...] it's easy to think that they are suffering throughout their lives. We admire them not just for their physiological resilience but also for their psychological fortitude. We project our senses onto theirs #EdYong — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 9, 2024
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Public opinion surveys suggest that a failure to do anything about immigration even while talking about it is one of the key causes of the breakdown in trust between the electorate and their political representatives. #DouglasMurray

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Public opinion surveys suggest that a failure to do anything about immigration even while talking about it is one of the key causes of the breakdown in trust between the electorate and their political representatives. #DouglasMurray — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 9, 2024
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Tragic heroes marched out into the world full of pride, biased vision and a mighty capacity for self-deception. Fate ultimately brought them to their knees. The lesson for us is not that we are doomed but that we must reassess the control we think we wield. #DerrenBrown

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Tragic heroes marched out into the world full of pride, biased vision and a mighty capacity for self-deception. Fate ultimately brought them to their knees. The lesson for us is not that we are doomed but that we must reassess the control we think we wield. #DerrenBrown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 8, 2024
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We think we know far more today, but as individuals, we actually know far less. We rely on the expertise of others for almost all our needs. #YuvalNoahHarari

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We think we know far more today, but as individuals, we actually know far less. We rely on the expertise of others for almost all our needs. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 8, 2024
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For religions, spirituality is a dangerous threat. #YuvalNoahHarari

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For religions, spirituality is a dangerous threat. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 8, 2024
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Better to keep quiet and let people think you're an idiot than speak up and confirm it. #RodneyDangerfield

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Better to keep quiet and let people think you're an idiot than speak up and confirm it. #RodneyDangerfield — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 8, 2024
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Ambivalence is not intrinsic to the psyche but is a property of the institutions that organize our lives. #EvaIllouz

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Ambivalence is not intrinsic to the psyche but is a property of the institutions that organize our lives. #EvaIllouz — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 8, 2024
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Many management are just deciding they're gonna buy X billions over X months. That's no way to buy things. You buy when selling for less than they are worth... It's not a complicated equation to figure out whether it is beneficial or not to repurchase shares #WarrenBuffett

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Many management are just deciding they're gonna buy X billions over X months. That's no way to buy things. You buy when selling for less than they are worth... It's not a complicated equation to figure out whether it is beneficial or not to repurchase shares #WarrenBuffett — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 7, 2024
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Cognitive behavioral therapists treat trauma patients by exposing them to the things they find upsetting (at first in small ways, such as imagining them or looking at pictures), activating their fear, and helping them habituate (grow accustomed) to the stimuli. #JonathanHaidt

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Cognitive behavioral therapists treat trauma patients by exposing them to the things they find upsetting (at first in small ways, such as imagining them or looking at pictures), activating their fear, and helping them habituate (grow accustomed) to the stimuli. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 7, 2024
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The success of America lies in its dynamic economy, sustained by an uncanny ability not just to produce the same with less, but to constantly innovate-that is, to invent completely new goods and services that the rest of the world soon finds to be useful and desirable #LeeKuanYew

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The success of America lies in its dynamic economy, sustained by an uncanny ability not just to produce the same with less, but to constantly innovate-that is, to invent completely new goods and services that the rest of the world soon finds to be useful and desirable #LeeKuanYew — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 7, 2024
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[Europeans more or less were] brought up as Christians [2,000 years ago but] in their practical policies, they have fought one war after the other [...] They have done the opposite of what they have been taught and what they have learned by heart. They're ridiculous #LeeKuanYew

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[Europeans more or less were] brought up as Christians [2,000 years ago but] in their practical policies, they have fought one war after the other [...] They have done the opposite of what they have been taught and what they have learned by heart. They're ridiculous #LeeKuanYew — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 7, 2024
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. #Thoreau

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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. #Thoreau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 7, 2024
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Rather than pushing singly up and forward, reaches instead sideways to include more fully those things that are already with us, such as our relationships, our children, the ways in which we are of use to others. #DerrenBrown

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Rather than pushing singly up and forward, reaches instead sideways to include more fully those things that are already with us, such as our relationships, our children, the ways in which we are of use to others. #DerrenBrown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 6, 2024
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Panic may be invited to shield us from more profound sources of self-aware agony. #TheSchoolOfLife

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Panic may be invited to shield us from more profound sources of self-aware agony. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 6, 2024
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Most approaches then specified actions that were good and bad with respect to those virtues. #JonathanHaidt

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Most approaches then specified actions that were good and bad with respect to those virtues. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 6, 2024
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Senses that seem paranormal to us only appear this way because we are so limited and so painfully unaware of our limitations. #EdYong

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Senses that seem paranormal to us only appear this way because we are so limited and so painfully unaware of our limitations. #EdYong — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 6, 2024
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Now, scholars can be very useful and necessary, in their own dull and unamusing way. They provide a lot of information. It's just that there is Something More, and that Something More is what life is really all about. #BenjaminHoff

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Now, scholars can be very useful and necessary, in their own dull and unamusing way. They provide a lot of information. It's just that there is Something More, and that Something More is what life is really all about. #BenjaminHoff — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 5, 2024
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...achievement is in the long run overrated, that simply being comfortable sitting next to another person watching a gardening programme on television, or carefully watering a potted geranium in the company of a small person, can be deeply important. #TheSchoolOfLife

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...achievement is in the long run overrated, that simply being comfortable sitting next to another person watching a gardening programme on television, or carefully watering a potted geranium in the company of a small person, can be deeply important. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 5, 2024
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For these reasons or reasons very like them he was killed who, of all the Hellenes in my time, least deserved to come to so miserable an end, since the whole of his life had been devoted to the study and the practice of virtue. #Thucydides

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For these reasons or reasons very like them he was killed who, of all the Hellenes in my time, least deserved to come to so miserable an end, since the whole of his life had been devoted to the study and the practice of virtue. #Thucydides — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 5, 2024
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Rejection hurts so much because we take it as a damning judgement passed not merely on our physical appeal but on our entire selves, and by extension [...] on our very right to exist. #AlaindeBotton

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Rejection hurts so much because we take it as a damning judgement passed not merely on our physical appeal but on our entire selves, and by extension [...] on our very right to exist. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 5, 2024
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Most societies also teach their children norms specific to their society. This ability of societies to adopt different norms is part of what has let humans spread across the Earth, by adopting norms better suited to each local environment. #KevinSimler

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Most societies also teach their children norms specific to their society. This ability of societies to adopt different norms is part of what has let humans spread across the Earth, by adopting norms better suited to each local environment. #KevinSimler — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 5, 2024
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When we are projecting it doesn't FEEL as if we are doing anything complicated or special. On the contrary it feels just as if we are seeing things as they are. So, typically we dislike the suggestion that we are 'projecting'. It feels as if it is an insult... #TheSchoolOfLife

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When we are projecting it doesn't FEEL as if we are doing anything complicated or special. On the contrary it feels just as if we are seeing things as they are. So, typically we dislike the suggestion that we are 'projecting'. It feels as if it is an insult... #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 4, 2024
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As Warren Buffett, the voice of the un- 1 percent, famously observed, something's wrong when billionaires pay taxes at a lower rate than their secretaries #JoshuaGreene

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As Warren Buffett, the voice of the un- 1 percent, famously observed, something's wrong when billionaires pay taxes at a lower rate than their secretaries #JoshuaGreene — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 4, 2024
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We certainly may have done and said some truly terrible things, but does this have to make us untenably awful people? No, because there is a difference between our being and our flaws. We are not our flaws. #TheSchoolOfLife

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We certainly may have done and said some truly terrible things, but does this have to make us untenably awful people? No, because there is a difference between our being and our flaws. We are not our flaws. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 4, 2024
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This is the simple fact that we have been living through a period of more than a quarter of a century in which all our grand narratives have collapsed. One by one the narratives we had were refuted, became unpopular to defend or impossible to sustain. #DouglasMurray

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This is the simple fact that we have been living through a period of more than a quarter of a century in which all our grand narratives have collapsed. One by one the narratives we had were refuted, became unpopular to defend or impossible to sustain. #DouglasMurray — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 4, 2024
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It makes sense that those most hooked on political media would be the most delusional, the same way consumers of political news in dog-raccoon-ville left the pro-dog and pro-raccoon crowds with totally different perceptions of reality. #TimUrban

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It makes sense that those most hooked on political media would be the most delusional, the same way consumers of political news in dog-raccoon-ville left the pro-dog and pro-raccoon crowds with totally different perceptions of reality. #TimUrban — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 4, 2024
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Few things are more annoying than a new person wasting everyone else's time because they are trying to prove they know something when their opinion isn't actually informed. #JulieZhuo

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Few things are more annoying than a new person wasting everyone else's time because they are trying to prove they know something when their opinion isn't actually informed. #JulieZhuo — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 3, 2024
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Linear relationships are truly the exception; we only focus on them in classrooms and textbooks because they are easier to understand. #NassimNicholasTaleb

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Linear relationships are truly the exception; we only focus on them in classrooms and textbooks because they are easier to understand. #NassimNicholasTaleb — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 3, 2024
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People now had a ton of free time to sit and think and worry about all sorts of existential shit that they had never considered before. #MarkManson

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People now had a ton of free time to sit and think and worry about all sorts of existential shit that they had never considered before. #MarkManson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 3, 2024
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The distinctive mark of snobs is not simple discrimination, it is an insistence on a flawless equation between social rank and human worth. #AlaindeBotton

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The distinctive mark of snobs is not simple discrimination, it is an insistence on a flawless equation between social rank and human worth. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 3, 2024
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When we Westerners think about morality, we use concepts that are thousands of years old, but that took a turn in their development in the last two hundred years. We don't realize our approach to morality is odd from the perspective of other cultures... #JonathanHaidt

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When we Westerners think about morality, we use concepts that are thousands of years old, but that took a turn in their development in the last two hundred years. We don't realize our approach to morality is odd from the perspective of other cultures... #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 2, 2024
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Reassurance can actually exacerbate anxiety: when you reassure your friend that the worst-case scenario he fears probably won't occur, you inadvertently reinforce his belief that it would be catastrophic if it did. You are tightening the coil of his anxiety... #OliverBurkeman

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Reassurance can actually exacerbate anxiety: when you reassure your friend that the worst-case scenario he fears probably won't occur, you inadvertently reinforce his belief that it would be catastrophic if it did. You are tightening the coil of his anxiety... #OliverBurkeman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 2, 2024
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It is both an irony and an indictment of the feminine mystique that it often forced the unhappy ones, the ugly ducklings, to find themselves, while girls who fitted the image became adjusted 'happy' housewives and have never found out who they are. #BettyFriedan

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It is both an irony and an indictment of the feminine mystique that it often forced the unhappy ones, the ugly ducklings, to find themselves, while girls who fitted the image became adjusted 'happy' housewives and have never found out who they are. #BettyFriedan — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 2, 2024
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Ownership of education is about much more than grades. Helping children to love learning itself, and to see education as a process of self-discovery and of recognizing their aptitudes and gifts so they can build on them for their college major and their career #RichardEyre

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Ownership of education is about much more than grades. Helping children to love learning itself, and to see education as a process of self-discovery and of recognizing their aptitudes and gifts so they can build on them for their college major and their career #RichardEyre — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 2, 2024
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First of all, both of us [Ozawa and Murakami] seem to take the same simple joy in our work. Whatever differences there might be between making music and writing fiction, both of us are happiest when absorbed in our work. #HarukiMurakami

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First of all, both of us [Ozawa and Murakami] seem to take the same simple joy in our work. Whatever differences there might be between making music and writing fiction, both of us are happiest when absorbed in our work. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 1, 2024
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The bad news is, you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there is no ground. #ChogyamTrungpa

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The bad news is, you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there is no ground. #ChogyamTrungpa — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 1, 2024
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What we advise is a capacity to stand aside from feelings in order to recognise their potentially deceptive nature. It means acknowledging a fundamental distinction between what we might feel about a situation--and what it might actually be. #TheSchoolOfLife

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What we advise is a capacity to stand aside from feelings in order to recognise their potentially deceptive nature. It means acknowledging a fundamental distinction between what we might feel about a situation--and what it might actually be. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 1, 2024
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The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times. #PauloCoelho

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The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times. #PauloCoelho — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 30, 2024
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Those areas where our caregivers were (as fallible human beings) stuck, or where their lives were in part unlived, will have impacted upon us like a script that, to one extent or another, sets out what we should seek or avoid in the world. #DerrenBrown

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Those areas where our caregivers were (as fallible human beings) stuck, or where their lives were in part unlived, will have impacted upon us like a script that, to one extent or another, sets out what we should seek or avoid in the world. #DerrenBrown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 30, 2024
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At the height of the 2015 crisis the single offer the Saudis did make was to build 200 new mosques in Germany for the benefit of the country's new arrivals. #DouglasMurray

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At the height of the 2015 crisis the single offer the Saudis did make was to build 200 new mosques in Germany for the benefit of the country's new arrivals. #DouglasMurray — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 30, 2024
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You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free. #ThichNhatHanh

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You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free. #ThichNhatHanh — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 30, 2024
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The research institution becomes an instrument of the golem, serving not the veritas plaque above its gates but the needs of its new golem boss: feeding it with confirmation and protecting it from doubt. This cripples our society's ability to learn new things. #TimUrban

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The research institution becomes an instrument of the golem, serving not the veritas plaque above its gates but the needs of its new golem boss: feeding it with confirmation and protecting it from doubt. This cripples our society's ability to learn new things. #TimUrban — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 30, 2024
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In every permanent situation, where there is no expectation of change, the mind of every man, in a longer or shorter time, returns to its natural and usual state of tranquility. In prosperity [...] it falls back to that state; in adversity [...] it rises up to it. #JonathanHaidt

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In every permanent situation, where there is no expectation of change, the mind of every man, in a longer or shorter time, returns to its natural and usual state of tranquility. In prosperity [...] it falls back to that state; in adversity [...] it rises up to it. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 30, 2024
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[Both capitalism and childcare] torture us by promising that we might be able to achieve 'work-life balance', an ideal as sentimental and humiliating as expecting that someone manage to be simultaneously both a professional ballerina and a brain surgeon. #TheSchoolOfLife

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[Both capitalism and childcare] torture us by promising that we might be able to achieve 'work-life balance', an ideal as sentimental and humiliating as expecting that someone manage to be simultaneously both a professional ballerina and a brain surgeon. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 29, 2024
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I hope you aren't holding an ice cream cone against your chest, 'cause your heart just warmed--and your ice cream just melted. #AzizAnsari

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I hope you aren't holding an ice cream cone against your chest, 'cause your heart just warmed--and your ice cream just melted. #AzizAnsari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 29, 2024
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In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. #AleksandrSolzhenitsyn

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In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. #AleksandrSolzhenitsyn — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 29, 2024
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Love enjoys knowing everything about you; desire needs mystery. Love likes to shrink the distance that exists between me and you, while desire is energized by it. If intimacy grows through repetition and familiarity, eroticism is numbed by repetition. #EstherPerel

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Love enjoys knowing everything about you; desire needs mystery. Love likes to shrink the distance that exists between me and you, while desire is energized by it. If intimacy grows through repetition and familiarity, eroticism is numbed by repetition. #EstherPerel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 29, 2024
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To act freely, according to Kant, is to act autonomously. And to act autonomously is to act according to a law I give myself--not according to the dictates of nature or social convention. #MichaelSandel

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To act freely, according to Kant, is to act autonomously. And to act autonomously is to act according to a law I give myself--not according to the dictates of nature or social convention. #MichaelSandel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 29, 2024
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You can't borrow money at 18 or 20 percent and come out ahead. #WarrenBuffett

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You can't borrow money at 18 or 20 percent and come out ahead. #WarrenBuffett — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 28, 2024
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All big things come from small beginnings. The seed of every habit is a single, tiny decision. But as that decision is repeated, a habit sprouts and grows stronger. Roots entrench themselves and branches grow. #JamesClear

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All big things come from small beginnings. The seed of every habit is a single, tiny decision. But as that decision is repeated, a habit sprouts and grows stronger. Roots entrench themselves and branches grow. #JamesClear — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 28, 2024
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Because our culture places such a high value on sociability, it can be deeply awkward to have to explain how much, at certain points, we need to be alone. #AlaindeBotton

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Because our culture places such a high value on sociability, it can be deeply awkward to have to explain how much, at certain points, we need to be alone. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 28, 2024
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In true love, you attain freedom. #ThichNhatHanh

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In true love, you attain freedom. #ThichNhatHanh — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 28, 2024
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A wealthy CEO could justify his or her advantages to a lower paid worker on a factory floor as: I am not worthier then you nor morally deserving of the privileged position I hold... #MichaelSandel

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A wealthy CEO could justify his or her advantages to a lower paid worker on a factory floor as: I am not worthier then you nor morally deserving of the privileged position I hold... #MichaelSandel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 28, 2024
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The beliefs, moreover, must be held in service of a goal. No one gets rationality credit for merely thinking true thoughts, like calculating the digits of [pi] #StevenPinker

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The beliefs, moreover, must be held in service of a goal. No one gets rationality credit for merely thinking true thoughts, like calculating the digits of [pi] #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 27, 2024
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Beck [a psychiatrist who developed Cognitive behavioral therapy] noticed a common pattern of beliefs, which he called the cognitive triad of depression: I'm no good, My world is bleak, and My future is hopeless. #JonathanHaidt

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Beck [a psychiatrist who developed Cognitive behavioral therapy] noticed a common pattern of beliefs, which he called the cognitive triad of depression: I'm no good, My world is bleak, and My future is hopeless. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 27, 2024
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Perhaps fiction is a kind of empathy gym, boosting your ability to empathize with other people--which is one of the most rich and precious forms of focus we have. Together, they decided to begin to study this question scientifically. #JohannHari

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Perhaps fiction is a kind of empathy gym, boosting your ability to empathize with other people--which is one of the most rich and precious forms of focus we have. Together, they decided to begin to study this question scientifically. #JohannHari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 27, 2024
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The only way to ensure that complaints don't become grounds for a break-up is to take care that they regularly express themselves as arguments, with raised voices and thunder if necessary. #TheSchoolOfLife

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The only way to ensure that complaints don't become grounds for a break-up is to take care that they regularly express themselves as arguments, with raised voices and thunder if necessary. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 27, 2024
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Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a carpenter to build one. #StevenPinker

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Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a carpenter to build one. #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 26, 2024
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People seek the approval of the crowd; Montaigne sought self-respect. Every one can play his part in the farce, and act an honest role on the stage. But to be disciplined within, in one's own breast, where all is permissible and all is concealed. That is the point. #DavidBrooks

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People seek the approval of the crowd; Montaigne sought self-respect. Every one can play his part in the farce, and act an honest role on the stage. But to be disciplined within, in one's own breast, where all is permissible and all is concealed. That is the point. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 26, 2024
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We won't give workers insulin, but we'll give them classes on how to change their thinking. It's the twenty-first-century version of Marie Antoinette saying, 'Let them eat cake.' Let them be present. #JohannHari

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We won't give workers insulin, but we'll give them classes on how to change their thinking. It's the twenty-first-century version of Marie Antoinette saying, 'Let them eat cake.' Let them be present. #JohannHari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 26, 2024
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The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. #BertrandRussell

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The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. #BertrandRussell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 26, 2024
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How can you have blind faith in something for which there is not a scrap of evidence? Well, the answer is you can't. If you could prove it, it wouldn't be faith. You can only have faith in what you don't know. That's what faith is. #PaulArden

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How can you have blind faith in something for which there is not a scrap of evidence? Well, the answer is you can't. If you could prove it, it wouldn't be faith. You can only have faith in what you don't know. That's what faith is. #PaulArden — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 26, 2024
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Marry, and you will regret it; don't marry, you will also regret it; marry or don't marry, you will regret it either way. Laugh at the world's foolishness, you will regret it; weep over it, you will regret that too... #SorenKierkegaard

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Marry, and you will regret it; don't marry, you will also regret it; marry or don't marry, you will regret it either way. Laugh at the world's foolishness, you will regret it; weep over it, you will regret that too... #SorenKierkegaard — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 25, 2024
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Quality time does not mean that we have to spend our together moments gazing into each other's eyes. It means that we are doing something together and that we are giving our full attention to the other person. #GaryChapman

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Quality time does not mean that we have to spend our together moments gazing into each other's eyes. It means that we are doing something together and that we are giving our full attention to the other person. #GaryChapman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 25, 2024
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We should also, to the extent possible, avoid people whose values are corrupt, for fear that their values will contaminate ours. #WilliamBIrvine

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We should also, to the extent possible, avoid people whose values are corrupt, for fear that their values will contaminate ours. #WilliamBIrvine — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 25, 2024
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The best revenge is not to be like your enemy. #MarcusAurelius

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The best revenge is not to be like your enemy. #MarcusAurelius — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 25, 2024
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Children who were able to overcome stimulus control and delay gratification for a few extra minutes in 1970 were better able to resist temptation as teenagers, to focus on their studies, and to control themselves when things didn't go the way they wanted. #JonathanHaidt

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Children who were able to overcome stimulus control and delay gratification for a few extra minutes in 1970 were better able to resist temptation as teenagers, to focus on their studies, and to control themselves when things didn't go the way they wanted. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 25, 2024
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And if you happen to live in a country whose leader routinely says things like 'Their sacrifice will redeem the purity of our eternal nation'--know that you are in deep trouble. #YuvalNoahHarari

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And if you happen to live in a country whose leader routinely says things like 'Their sacrifice will redeem the purity of our eternal nation'--know that you are in deep trouble. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 25, 2024
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...a culture of defensive self-censorship seemed to be emerging, partly in response to students who were quick to call out or shame others for small things that they deemed to be insensitive... We called this pattern vindictive protectiveness #JonathanHaidt

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...a culture of defensive self-censorship seemed to be emerging, partly in response to students who were quick to call out or shame others for small things that they deemed to be insensitive... We called this pattern vindictive protectiveness #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 24, 2024
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Courage is strength in the face of knowledge of what is to be feared or hoped. Wisdom is prudent strength. #AtulGawande

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Courage is strength in the face of knowledge of what is to be feared or hoped. Wisdom is prudent strength. #AtulGawande — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 24, 2024
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All these counterproductive ways of thinking about failure manifest themselves most acutely in the phenomenon of perfectionism. This is one of those traits that many people seem secretly, or not so secretly, proud to possess #OliverBurkeman

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All these counterproductive ways of thinking about failure manifest themselves most acutely in the phenomenon of perfectionism. This is one of those traits that many people seem secretly, or not so secretly, proud to possess #OliverBurkeman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 24, 2024
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A general law of least effort applies to cognitive as well as physical exertion. The law asserts that if there are several ways of achieving the same goal, people will eventually gravitate to the least demanding course of action. #DanielKahneman

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A general law of least effort applies to cognitive as well as physical exertion. The law asserts that if there are several ways of achieving the same goal, people will eventually gravitate to the least demanding course of action. #DanielKahneman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 24, 2024
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Worldly success is the consolation prize for those unhappy driven souls who have redirected their early humiliation and sense that they weren't good enough into 'achievements'--which will never make up for the unconditional love they will deep down always crave #TheSchoolOfLife

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Worldly success is the consolation prize for those unhappy driven souls who have redirected their early humiliation and sense that they weren't good enough into 'achievements'--which will never make up for the unconditional love they will deep down always crave #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 23, 2024
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We need a kind of thinking that enables groups with conflicting moralities to live together and prosper. In other words, we need a metamorality. #JoshuaGreene

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We need a kind of thinking that enables groups with conflicting moralities to live together and prosper. In other words, we need a metamorality. #JoshuaGreene — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 23, 2024
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A study of people who exaggerate their expected life span beyond actuarial predictions showed that they work longer hours, are more optimistic about their future income, are more likely to remarry after divorce (the classic triumph of hope over experience) #DanielKahneman

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A study of people who exaggerate their expected life span beyond actuarial predictions showed that they work longer hours, are more optimistic about their future income, are more likely to remarry after divorce (the classic triumph of hope over experience) #DanielKahneman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 23, 2024
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Running day after day, piling up the races, bit by bit I raise the bar, and by clearing each level I elevate myself. #HarukiMurakami

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Running day after day, piling up the races, bit by bit I raise the bar, and by clearing each level I elevate myself. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 23, 2024
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Deep inside, she knew who she was, and that person was smart and kind and often even funny, but somehow her personality always got lost somewhere between her heart and her mouth, and she found herself saying the wrong thing or, more often, nothing at all. #JuliaQuinn

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Deep inside, she knew who she was, and that person was smart and kind and often even funny, but somehow her personality always got lost somewhere between her heart and her mouth, and she found herself saying the wrong thing or, more often, nothing at all. #JuliaQuinn — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 23, 2024
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I believe the Scottish philosopher David Hume was closer to the truth than was Plato when he said, Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them. #JonathanHaidt

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I believe the Scottish philosopher David Hume was closer to the truth than was Plato when he said, Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 23, 2024
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Let me fall if I must fall. The one I become will catch me. #SherylSandberg

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Let me fall if I must fall. The one I become will catch me. #SherylSandberg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 22, 2024
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Never really either private or public, the modern self establishes its value through processes that are at once psychological and sociological, private and public, emotional and ritualistic. #EvaIllouz

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Never really either private or public, the modern self establishes its value through processes that are at once psychological and sociological, private and public, emotional and ritualistic. #EvaIllouz — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 22, 2024
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During the twentieth century, as people became wealthier and the producer society turned gradually into the mass consumption society, an alternative vision of the self arose--a vision centered on the idea of individual preferences and personal fulfillment. #JonathanHaidt

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During the twentieth century, as people became wealthier and the producer society turned gradually into the mass consumption society, an alternative vision of the self arose--a vision centered on the idea of individual preferences and personal fulfillment. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 22, 2024
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Tears wet my eyes. I'm a surgeon. I like solving things. But how do I solve #AtulGawande

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Tears wet my eyes. I'm a surgeon. I like solving things. But how do I solve #AtulGawande — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 22, 2024
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Due to this dualist legacy, every journey on which we doubt the conventions and deals of the mundane world and walk towards an unknown destination is called 'a spiritual journey'. #YuvalNoahHarari

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Due to this dualist legacy, every journey on which we doubt the conventions and deals of the mundane world and walk towards an unknown destination is called 'a spiritual journey'. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 21, 2024
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If the genie is the ultimate Scientist, the golem is the ultimate Zealot--a giant that's totally certain of itself, totally unable to learn or change its mind, and worse at thinking than the average human. #TimUrban

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If the genie is the ultimate Scientist, the golem is the ultimate Zealot--a giant that's totally certain of itself, totally unable to learn or change its mind, and worse at thinking than the average human. #TimUrban — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 21, 2024
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[Notes on Nationalism] A known fact may be so unbearable that it is habitually pushed aside and not allowed to enter into logical processes, or on the other hand it may enter into every calculation and yet never be admitted as a fact, even in one's own mind. #GeorgeOrwell

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[Notes on Nationalism] A known fact may be so unbearable that it is habitually pushed aside and not allowed to enter into logical processes, or on the other hand it may enter into every calculation and yet never be admitted as a fact, even in one's own mind. #GeorgeOrwell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 21, 2024
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In a society that judges self-worth on productivity, it is no wonder we fall prey to the misconception that the more we do, the more we're worth. #EllenSueStern

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In a society that judges self-worth on productivity, it is no wonder we fall prey to the misconception that the more we do, the more we're worth. #EllenSueStern — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 21, 2024
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American Express employees were told in mandatory trainings to create an identity map by writing their race, sexual orientation, body type, religion, disability status, age, gender identity, citizenship in circles surrounding the words Who am I? #TimUrban

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American Express employees were told in mandatory trainings to create an identity map by writing their race, sexual orientation, body type, religion, disability status, age, gender identity, citizenship in circles surrounding the words Who am I? #TimUrban — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 20, 2024
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We tend to confuse [intelligence and consciousness] because in humans and other mammals intelligence goes hand in hand with consciousness. Mammals solve most problems by feeling things. Computers, however, solve problems in a very different way. #YuvalNoahHarari

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We tend to confuse [intelligence and consciousness] because in humans and other mammals intelligence goes hand in hand with consciousness. Mammals solve most problems by feeling things. Computers, however, solve problems in a very different way. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 20, 2024
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Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. #JamesClear

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Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. #JamesClear — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 20, 2024
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Reasoning is a social process, and we typically have to convince disinterested third parties before there's any chance our opponents will accept defeat. #KevinSimler

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Reasoning is a social process, and we typically have to convince disinterested third parties before there's any chance our opponents will accept defeat. #KevinSimler — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 20, 2024
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So active fathers, male-female pair-bonds, male sexual jealousy, and big-headed babies all co-evolved--that is, arose gradually but together. #JonathanHaidt

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So active fathers, male-female pair-bonds, male sexual jealousy, and big-headed babies all co-evolved--that is, arose gradually but together. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 19, 2024
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Defend yourself when necessary with gentle confidence, never with glee or satisfaction. For when the battle is over and you survey the damage done, it will be a time for mourning. #WilliamMartin

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Defend yourself when necessary with gentle confidence, never with glee or satisfaction. For when the battle is over and you survey the damage done, it will be a time for mourning. #WilliamMartin — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 19, 2024
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...all biological accounts of the evolution of cooperation with non-kin involve favoring one's cooperation partners over others. Indeed, some mathematical models indicate that altruism within groups could not have evolved without hostility between groups. #JoshuaGreene

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...all biological accounts of the evolution of cooperation with non-kin involve favoring one's cooperation partners over others. Indeed, some mathematical models indicate that altruism within groups could not have evolved without hostility between groups. #JoshuaGreene — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 19, 2024
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The higher the level of our self-esteem, the more likely it is that we will find a work and a love through which we can express ourselves in satisfying and enriching ways #NathanielBranden

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The higher the level of our self-esteem, the more likely it is that we will find a work and a love through which we can express ourselves in satisfying and enriching ways #NathanielBranden — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 19, 2024
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Your eyes show the strength of your soul. #PauloCoelho

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Your eyes show the strength of your soul. #PauloCoelho — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 19, 2024
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They use data as a flashlight, not a hammer. This ethic of contribution (Everybody gives) and this ethic of total collaboration (We're all responsible) is central to community work at its highest level. #DavidBrooks

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They use data as a flashlight, not a hammer. This ethic of contribution (Everybody gives) and this ethic of total collaboration (We're all responsible) is central to community work at its highest level. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 19, 2024
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The person who cannot tolerate secrets, who in the name of 'being honest' always has to share information so wounding it cannot be forgotten, is no friend of love. #TheSchoolOfLife

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The person who cannot tolerate secrets, who in the name of 'being honest' always has to share information so wounding it cannot be forgotten, is no friend of love. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 18, 2024
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If you can't actually take time off without having to make sure everything is going right at the office, the thinking goes, you aren't managing your teams well. #JeffSutherland

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If you can't actually take time off without having to make sure everything is going right at the office, the thinking goes, you aren't managing your teams well. #JeffSutherland — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 18, 2024
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Grossly expanded conceptions of trauma and safety are now used to justify the overprotection of children of all ages #JonathanHaidt

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Grossly expanded conceptions of trauma and safety are now used to justify the overprotection of children of all ages #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 18, 2024
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Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that's what you are seeking #NassimNicholasTaleb

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Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that's what you are seeking #NassimNicholasTaleb — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 18, 2024
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As we mature we realize that not all adults agree with each other, so some of them must be wrong. We become more sophisticated in our choice of authority figures, but we still tend to rely on others to know what to think--on experts [...] or just common knowledge. #StevenNovella

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As we mature we realize that not all adults agree with each other, so some of them must be wrong. We become more sophisticated in our choice of authority figures, but we still tend to rely on others to know what to think--on experts [...] or just common knowledge. #StevenNovella — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 17, 2024
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As long as people's starting points are asymmetrical, people will be tempted, unconsciously if not consciously, to tailor their conceptions of fairness to suit their interests. #JoshuaGreene

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As long as people's starting points are asymmetrical, people will be tempted, unconsciously if not consciously, to tailor their conceptions of fairness to suit their interests. #JoshuaGreene — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 17, 2024
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Psychologists usually offer three explanations for the failure of group brainstorming. The first is social loafing: in a group, some individuals tend to sit back and let others do the work. #SusanCain

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Psychologists usually offer three explanations for the failure of group brainstorming. The first is social loafing: in a group, some individuals tend to sit back and let others do the work. #SusanCain — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 17, 2024
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...enigmas drew me into new territories, including the nature of rumor, folk wisdom, and conspiratorial thinking; the contrast between rationality within an individual and in a community; and the distinction between two modes of believing: the reality mindset and the mythology...

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...enigmas drew me into new territories, including the nature of rumor, folk wisdom, and conspiratorial thinking; the contrast between rationality within an individual and in a community; and the distinction between two modes of believing: the reality mindset and the mythology... — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 16, 2024
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We (sea folk) can live to be three hundred years old, but when we perish we turn into mere foam on the sea. #HansChristianAndersen

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We (sea folk) can live to be three hundred years old, but when we perish we turn into mere foam on the sea. #HansChristianAndersen — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 16, 2024
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The ancients may have known little about biology, chemistry, and physics, but many were good psychologists. #JonathanHaidt

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The ancients may have known little about biology, chemistry, and physics, but many were good psychologists. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 16, 2024
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This increasingly rapid rate of change induces serious stress on all facets of urban life. This is surely not sustainable, and, if nothing changes, we are heading for a major crash and a potential collapse of the entire socioeconomic fabric. #GeoffreyWest

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This increasingly rapid rate of change induces serious stress on all facets of urban life. This is surely not sustainable, and, if nothing changes, we are heading for a major crash and a potential collapse of the entire socioeconomic fabric. #GeoffreyWest — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 16, 2024
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Still, when you get to a certain age, and have created your own lifestyle and social standing, and only then start having grave doubts about your value as a human being... #HarukiMurakami

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Still, when you get to a certain age, and have created your own lifestyle and social standing, and only then start having grave doubts about your value as a human being... #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 16, 2024
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Being chosen by the one you chose is one of the glories of falling in love. It generates a feeling of intense personal importance. I matter. You confirm my significance. #EstherPerel

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Being chosen by the one you chose is one of the glories of falling in love. It generates a feeling of intense personal importance. I matter. You confirm my significance. #EstherPerel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 16, 2024
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[On the footbridge dilemma] If you don't feel that it's wrong to push the man off the footbridge, there's something wrong with you. I, too, feel that it's wrong, and I doubt that I could actually bring myself to push, and I'm glad that I'm like this. #JoshuaGreene

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[On the footbridge dilemma] If you don't feel that it's wrong to push the man off the footbridge, there's something wrong with you. I, too, feel that it's wrong, and I doubt that I could actually bring myself to push, and I'm glad that I'm like this. #JoshuaGreene — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 15, 2024
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'Reason' and 'rationalism' had led men to do the most unreasonable and irrational things. It had been just another system used by men to control other men. Belief in the autonomy of man had been destroyed by men. #DouglasMurray

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'Reason' and 'rationalism' had led men to do the most unreasonable and irrational things. It had been just another system used by men to control other men. Belief in the autonomy of man had been destroyed by men. #DouglasMurray — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 15, 2024
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While some people said they were getting married for love, the pressure to get married and start a family was such that not every match could be a love match, so instead we had the good enough marriage. #AzizAnsari

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While some people said they were getting married for love, the pressure to get married and start a family was such that not every match could be a love match, so instead we had the good enough marriage. #AzizAnsari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 15, 2024
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...by creating associations that exist out in the broader culture--not just in our own heads, but in the heads of third parties--ads turn products into a vocabulary that we use to express ourselves and signal our good traits. #KevinSimler

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...by creating associations that exist out in the broader culture--not just in our own heads, but in the heads of third parties--ads turn products into a vocabulary that we use to express ourselves and signal our good traits. #KevinSimler — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 15, 2024
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The dean seemed to believe that if students talked about their suffering, it would harm their friends. It is an illustration of the Untruth of Fragility (What doesn't kill you makes you weaker) trumping common sense and basic humanity. #JonathanHaidt

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The dean seemed to believe that if students talked about their suffering, it would harm their friends. It is an illustration of the Untruth of Fragility (What doesn't kill you makes you weaker) trumping common sense and basic humanity. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 14, 2024
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The lesson is clear: neither science nor data are democratic. Science is meritocratic and not all data are equal. #GeoffreyWest

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The lesson is clear: neither science nor data are democratic. Science is meritocratic and not all data are equal. #GeoffreyWest — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 14, 2024
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There was no need to save up for a spot in a nursing home or arrange for meals-on-wheels. It was understood that parents [in India] would just keep living in their home, assisted by one or more of the children they'd raised. #AtulGawande

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There was no need to save up for a spot in a nursing home or arrange for meals-on-wheels. It was understood that parents [in India] would just keep living in their home, assisted by one or more of the children they'd raised. #AtulGawande — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 14, 2024
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The greater part of our anxieties stems from an exaggerated sense of the importance of our own projects and concerns. We are tortured by our ideals and by a punishingly high-minded sense of the gravity of what we are doing. #AlaindeBotton

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The greater part of our anxieties stems from an exaggerated sense of the importance of our own projects and concerns. We are tortured by our ideals and by a punishingly high-minded sense of the gravity of what we are doing. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 14, 2024
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Very often, the fear of total permanent war paralyzes the kind of morally oriented politics, which might engage our interests and our passions. #CWrightMills

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Very often, the fear of total permanent war paralyzes the kind of morally oriented politics, which might engage our interests and our passions. #CWrightMills — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 14, 2024
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Where once there was an overriding explanation (however many troubles that brought), now there is only an overriding uncertainty and question. And we cannot unlearn our knowledge. #DouglasMurray

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Where once there was an overriding explanation (however many troubles that brought), now there is only an overriding uncertainty and question. And we cannot unlearn our knowledge. #DouglasMurray — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 13, 2024
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