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Get busy living, or get busy dying. #StephenKing — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 9, 2024

Don't always consider all your options. Don't necessarily go for the outcome that seems best every time. #BrianChristian

Don't always consider all your options. Don't necessarily go for the outcome that seems best every time. #BrianChristian — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 8, 2024

[A nationalist] sees history, especially contemporary history, as the endless rise and decline of great power units, and every event that happens seems to him a demonstration that his own side is on the up-grade and some hated rival is on the down-grade. #GeorgeOrwell

[A nationalist] sees history, especially contemporary history, as the endless rise and decline of great power units, and every event that happens seems to him a demonstration that his own side is on the up-grade and some hated rival is on the down-grade. #GeorgeOrwell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 8, 2024

If a parent or carer is warm, consistent, attuned, steady and kind, the child will thrive. It will have confidence in itself and in the world. It will know how to love and will have the courage to start relationships, secure [and calmly complain when neglected] #TheSchoolOfLife

If a parent or carer is warm, consistent, attuned, steady and kind, the child will thrive. It will have confidence in itself and in the world. It will know how to love and will have the courage to start relationships, secure [and calmly complain when neglected] #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 8, 2024

A fellow NCO in the Marines once told me that his priorities were the following: provider, parent, spouse, and change agent. In that order. #GeneKim

A fellow NCO in the Marines once told me that his priorities were the following: provider, parent, spouse, and change agent. In that order. #GeneKim — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 8, 2024

Living by the wisdom of computer science doesn't sound so bad after all. And unlike most advice, it's backed up by proofs. #BrianChristian

Living by the wisdom of computer science doesn't sound so bad after all. And unlike most advice, it's backed up by proofs. #BrianChristian — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 8, 2024

Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life--and for me, for writing as well. #HarukiMurakami

Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life--and for me, for writing as well. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 8, 2024

Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy. #HenryKissinger

Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy. #HenryKissinger — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 7, 2024

[Some] need to dial up a faith in Free Will, others need more of a mellow acceptance of Determinism. The oldest debate in philosophy isn't [unanswerable]. We just have to answer it with more of a sense of what we need to believe in to be calmer and more fulfilled #TheSchoolOfLife

[Some] need to dial up a faith in Free Will, others need more of a mellow acceptance of Determinism. The oldest debate in philosophy isn't [unanswerable]. We just have to answer it with more of a sense of what we need to believe in to be calmer and more fulfilled #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 7, 2024

...rather amazingly, an IAT developed for monkeys shows that they, too, exhibit implicit preferences for in-group members, associating good things like fruit with in-group members and bad things like spiders with out-group members. #JoshuaGreene

...rather amazingly, an IAT developed for monkeys shows that they, too, exhibit implicit preferences for in-group members, associating good things like fruit with in-group members and bad things like spiders with out-group members. #JoshuaGreene — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 7, 2024

Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different, but we cannot move forward if we're still holding onto the pain of that past and wishing it was something else. #OprahWinfrey

Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different, but we cannot move forward if we're still holding onto the pain of that past and wishing it was something else. #OprahWinfrey — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 7, 2024

The people and institutions who leave a mark provide you with better things to love, a new field of knowledge or a new form of carpentry or auto repair, or a new vision of social change. #DavidBrooks

The people and institutions who leave a mark provide you with better things to love, a new field of knowledge or a new form of carpentry or auto repair, or a new vision of social change. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 6, 2024

We're told that to be great is to be bold, to be happy is to be sociable. We see ourselves as a nation of extroverts--which means that we've lost sight of who we really are. #SusanCain

We're told that to be great is to be bold, to be happy is to be sociable. We see ourselves as a nation of extroverts--which means that we've lost sight of who we really are. #SusanCain — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 6, 2024

There is a value in leaving behind your other concerns and narrowing down your attention to one thing, sentence after sentence, page after page. #JohannHari

There is a value in leaving behind your other concerns and narrowing down your attention to one thing, sentence after sentence, page after page. #JohannHari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 6, 2024

However, optimism is highly valued, socially and in the market; people and firms reward the providers of dangerously misleading information more than they reward truth tellers. #DanielKahneman

However, optimism is highly valued, socially and in the market; people and firms reward the providers of dangerously misleading information more than they reward truth tellers. #DanielKahneman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 6, 2024

[Sex] cannot occur without a high degree of vulnerability on both sides. The physical act requires an almost unavoidable degree of physical and emotional intimacy--which explains why sex can be so difficult between two people who lack trust... #TheSchoolOfLife

[Sex] cannot occur without a high degree of vulnerability on both sides. The physical act requires an almost unavoidable degree of physical and emotional intimacy--which explains why sex can be so difficult between two people who lack trust... #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 6, 2024

You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power--he's free again. #AleksandrSolzhenitsyn

You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power--he's free again. #AleksandrSolzhenitsyn — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 5, 2024

If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. #AleksandrSolzhenitsyn

If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. #AleksandrSolzhenitsyn — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 5, 2024

With this moral authority there was the power to better defend myself against racism, but there was also a new, abusive power very similar to the abusive power that had been wielded against me--a power of racial privilege deriving solely from the color of my skin. #ShelbySteele

With this moral authority there was the power to better defend myself against racism, but there was also a new, abusive power very similar to the abusive power that had been wielded against me--a power of racial privilege deriving solely from the color of my skin. #ShelbySteele — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 5, 2024

Men can't 'multi-task' apparently. #RobertWebb

Men can't 'multi-task' apparently. #RobertWebb — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 5, 2024

If a government is corrupt and fails to improve people's lives, enough citizens will eventually realise this and replace the government. But government control of the media undermines Lincoln's logic, because it prevents citizens from realising the truth. #YuvalNoahHarari

If a government is corrupt and fails to improve people's lives, enough citizens will eventually realise this and replace the government. But government control of the media undermines Lincoln's logic, because it prevents citizens from realising the truth. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 5, 2024

Instead, the lesson is that false beliefs, once they've become culturally entrenched--once they've become tribal badges of honor--are very difficult to change, and changing them is no longer simply a matter of educating people. #JoshuaGreene

Instead, the lesson is that false beliefs, once they've become culturally entrenched--once they've become tribal badges of honor--are very difficult to change, and changing them is no longer simply a matter of educating people. #JoshuaGreene — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 4, 2024

The two biggest causes of evil are two that we think are good, and that we try to encourage in our children: high self-esteem and moral idealism. #JonathanHaidt

The two biggest causes of evil are two that we think are good, and that we try to encourage in our children: high self-esteem and moral idealism. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 4, 2024

[White guilt] says that white supremacy is not a moral truth that decency requires us to observe, but rather an evil that decency requires us to condemn. This new virtue demands that whites condemn the idea of their own racial superiority. #ShelbySteele

[White guilt] says that white supremacy is not a moral truth that decency requires us to observe, but rather an evil that decency requires us to condemn. This new virtue demands that whites condemn the idea of their own racial superiority. #ShelbySteele — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 4, 2024

[When] forgiveness feels impossible, therapists speak of [...] 'splitting', [declaring] some people to be entirely good and others [as] entirely awful [to] protect ourselves from what can feel like the impossible dangers of disappointment or grown-up ambivalence. #TheSchoolOfLife

[When] forgiveness feels impossible, therapists speak of [...] 'splitting', [declaring] some people to be entirely good and others [as] entirely awful [to] protect ourselves from what can feel like the impossible dangers of disappointment or grown-up ambivalence. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 4, 2024

As all schoolchildren learn, nature abhors a vacuum, and into the postmodern vacuum new ideas began to creep, with the intention of providing explanations and meanings of their own. #DouglasMurray

As all schoolchildren learn, nature abhors a vacuum, and into the postmodern vacuum new ideas began to creep, with the intention of providing explanations and meanings of their own. #DouglasMurray — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 4, 2024

With these distinctive traditions and millennial habits of superiority, China entered the modern age a singular kind of empire: a state claiming universal relevance for its culture and institutions but making few efforts to proselytize #HenryKissinger

With these distinctive traditions and millennial habits of superiority, China entered the modern age a singular kind of empire: a state claiming universal relevance for its culture and institutions but making few efforts to proselytize #HenryKissinger — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 3, 2024

There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still have to prove our worth anew each day. But when we have a valid alibi for not achieving anything we are fixed, so to speak, for life.

There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still have to prove our worth anew each day. But when we have a valid alibi for not achieving anything we are fixed, so to speak, for life. — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 3, 2024

Studying history aims to loosen the grip of the past. It enables us to turn our head this way and that, and begin to notice possibilities that our ancestors could not imagine, or didn't want us to imagine. #YuvalNoahHarari

Studying history aims to loosen the grip of the past. It enables us to turn our head this way and that, and begin to notice possibilities that our ancestors could not imagine, or didn't want us to imagine. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 3, 2024

The way we work seems fixed and unchangeable--until it changes, and then we realise it didn't have to be like that in the first place. #JohannHari

The way we work seems fixed and unchangeable--until it changes, and then we realise it didn't have to be like that in the first place. #JohannHari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 3, 2024

We began to question our long-held beliefs about our own society. This perhaps was one of the most profound and complicated feelings experienced by many Chinese students [having studied overseas]. #QianNing

We began to question our long-held beliefs about our own society. This perhaps was one of the most profound and complicated feelings experienced by many Chinese students [having studied overseas]. #QianNing — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 3, 2024

What we learn from the past is to maximize the qualities of our future memories, not necessarily of our future experience. This is the tyranny of the remembering self. #DanielKahneman

What we learn from the past is to maximize the qualities of our future memories, not necessarily of our future experience. This is the tyranny of the remembering self. #DanielKahneman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 3, 2024

It's as if we are on a succession of accelerating treadmills and have to jump from one to another at an ever-increasing rate. This is clearly not sustainable, potentially leading to the collapse of the entire urbanized socioeconomic fabric. #GeoffreyWest

It's as if we are on a succession of accelerating treadmills and have to jump from one to another at an ever-increasing rate. This is clearly not sustainable, potentially leading to the collapse of the entire urbanized socioeconomic fabric. #GeoffreyWest — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 2, 2024

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. #Thoreau

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. #Thoreau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 2, 2024

Loyalty is involved, and so pity ceases to function. #GeorgeOrwell

Loyalty is involved, and so pity ceases to function. #GeorgeOrwell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 2, 2024

When countries desperately need reserve currencies to service their reserve currency-denominated debts, and to buy things from sellers who only accept reserve currencies, they can go bankrupt. #RayDalio

When countries desperately need reserve currencies to service their reserve currency-denominated debts, and to buy things from sellers who only accept reserve currencies, they can go bankrupt. #RayDalio — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 2, 2024

But even though social class may once have been a good predictor of ideology, that link has been largely broken in modern times, when the rich go both ways (industrialists mostly right, tech billionaires mostly left) #JonathanHaidt

But even though social class may once have been a good predictor of ideology, that link has been largely broken in modern times, when the rich go both ways (industrialists mostly right, tech billionaires mostly left) #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 2, 2024

No worse fate could befall a group emerging from oppression than to find itself gripped by a militancy that sees justice in making others responsible for its advancement. #ShelbySteele

No worse fate could befall a group emerging from oppression than to find itself gripped by a militancy that sees justice in making others responsible for its advancement. #ShelbySteele — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 2, 2024

Hyper-individualism erodes our obligations and responsibilities to others and our kind. #DavidBrooks

Hyper-individualism erodes our obligations and responsibilities to others and our kind. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 1, 2024

The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small. #HenryKissinger

The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small. #HenryKissinger — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 1, 2024

[A] reason for Buddha's emphasis on detachment may have been the turbulent times he lived in: Kings and city-states were making war, and people's lives and fortunes could be burned up overnight. When life is unpredictable and dangerous (as it was for the Stoic...) #JonathanHaidt

[A] reason for Buddha's emphasis on detachment may have been the turbulent times he lived in: Kings and city-states were making war, and people's lives and fortunes could be burned up overnight. When life is unpredictable and dangerous (as it was for the Stoic...) #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 1, 2024

We carry within us a gamut of expectations that remorselessly torment us and inflict on us some of the many symptoms of self-hatred: a tense spine, insomnia, malfunctioning bowels [...] a feeling of dread and, in the wake of crises, a desire to kill ourselves. #TheSchoolOfLife