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The truth is that truth was never high on the agenda of Homo sapiens. #YuvalNoahHarari
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Tensions between men and women today stem less from different aspirations than from the difficulties they face translating their ideals into practice. #StephanieCoontz
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I'm learning that recognizing and leaning into the discomfort of vulnerability teaches us how to live with joy, gratitude and grace. #BreneBrown
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Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from our standpoint. Therefore we must be saved by the final form of love [forgiveness] #DavidBrooks
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Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from our standpoint. Therefore we must be saved by the final form of love [forgiveness] #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 30, 2024
Living in a city is an art, not a science. Choosing to live in a city is choosing to enter into a relationship with it. And, like any human relationship, the relationship you have with your city is one that requires nurturing, constant practice and work. #TheSchoolOfLife
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Living in a city is an art, not a science. Choosing to live in a city is choosing to enter into a relationship with it. And, like any human relationship, the relationship you have with your city is one that requires nurturing, constant practice and work. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 30, 2024
...those who pursue struggle end up being happier than those who pursue pleasure. #DavidBrooks
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...sports leagues aren't concerned with determining the rankings as quickly and expeditiously as possible. Instead, sports calendars are explicitly designed to maintain tension throughout the season, something that has rarely been a concern of sorting theory. #BrianChristian
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...sports leagues aren't concerned with determining the rankings as quickly and expeditiously as possible. Instead, sports calendars are explicitly designed to maintain tension throughout the season, something that has rarely been a concern of sorting theory. #BrianChristian — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 29, 2024
The lingering work ethic of our Protestant forebears still haunts us. #DerrenBrown
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Mihaly's deeper insight has been forgotten: that we have within us a force that makes it possible to focus for long stretches and enjoy it, and it will make us happier and healthier, if only we create the right circumstances to let it flow. #JohannHari
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Mihaly's deeper insight has been forgotten: that we have within us a force that makes it possible to focus for long stretches and enjoy it, and it will make us happier and healthier, if only we create the right circumstances to let it flow. #JohannHari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 29, 2024
...a community's supply of social rewards is limited, so we're often competing to show more loyalty than others--to engage in a holier than thou arms race. And this leads to the kind of extreme displays and exaggerated features we find across the biological world. #RobinHanson
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...a community's supply of social rewards is limited, so we're often competing to show more loyalty than others--to engage in a holier than thou arms race. And this leads to the kind of extreme displays and exaggerated features we find across the biological world. #RobinHanson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 29, 2024
If I lack self-respect and consequently accept discourtesy, abuse [...] from others as natural, I unconsciously transmit this, and some people will treat me at my self-estimate. When this happens, and I submit to it, my self-respect deteriorates still more. #NathanielBranden
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If I lack self-respect and consequently accept discourtesy, abuse [...] from others as natural, I unconsciously transmit this, and some people will treat me at my self-estimate. When this happens, and I submit to it, my self-respect deteriorates still more. #NathanielBranden — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 28, 2024
And yet, all of us likely remember moments when a kind word about our unique strengths made us swell with pride and gave us more fuel to achieve our goals. #JulieZhuo
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In postmodern thought, language is believed to have enormous power to control society and how we think and thus is inherently dangerous. #HelenPluckrose
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Quite contrary to the modern-day meaning of the word epicurean--often associated with decadent and plentiful food--what the school of Epicurus taught was that man actually needed very little to be happy, as long as he had recourse to reason and [can] limit his desires #JennyOdell
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Quite contrary to the modern-day meaning of the word epicurean--often associated with decadent and plentiful food--what the school of Epicurus taught was that man actually needed very little to be happy, as long as he had recourse to reason and [can] limit his desires #JennyOdell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 27, 2024
[Up till 50 years ago] people were satisfied with what [Andrew Cherlin] calls a companionate marriage. In this type of marriage each partner had clearly defined roles [...] satisfaction you gained in the marriage depended on how well you fulfilled this assigned role #AzizAnsari
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[Up till 50 years ago] people were satisfied with what [Andrew Cherlin] calls a companionate marriage. In this type of marriage each partner had clearly defined roles [...] satisfaction you gained in the marriage depended on how well you fulfilled this assigned role #AzizAnsari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 27, 2024
There is a greater correlation between perfectionism and suicide, research suggests, than between feelings of hopelessness and suicide. #OliverBurkeman
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Recommitment often means putting your own sins on the table. Forbearance means acknowledging the wrongs that have been committed, and even the anger that they have created #DavidBrooks
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Many people (especially academics) remain unaware of the depth of this problem, which presents as ideological closedness, unwillingness to accept any disagreement, and an authoritarian will to enforce a Social Justice conception of society and moral imperative... #HelenPluckrose
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Many people (especially academics) remain unaware of the depth of this problem, which presents as ideological closedness, unwillingness to accept any disagreement, and an authoritarian will to enforce a Social Justice conception of society and moral imperative... #HelenPluckrose — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 26, 2024
Being able to share issues belongs to a slow pattern of progress whereby humans have learnt to come to terms with their vulnerability and accept themselves as only intermittently rational; our strength lies in being able to accept our own fragility. #TheSchoolOfLife
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Being able to share issues belongs to a slow pattern of progress whereby humans have learnt to come to terms with their vulnerability and accept themselves as only intermittently rational; our strength lies in being able to accept our own fragility. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 26, 2024
There are no longer any predetermined life paths. Each of us is on our own. #AzizAnsari
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Aristotle taught that virtue is something we cultivate with practice: we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. #MichaelSandel
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The goal which my freedom aims at is conquering existence across the always inadequate density of being. #SimonedeBeauvoir
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But once it was clear the tide was turning, nearly all major Republicans--including Cruz, Perry, Paul, and Rubio--pulled a 180 and backed Trump. #TimUrban
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It's not just that extroverts are naturally happier and healthier; when introverts are forced to be more outgoing, they usually enjoy it and find that it boosts their mood. #JonathanHaidt
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...our confirmation bias: the bad habit of seeking evidence that ratifies a belief and being incurious about evidence that might falsify it. #StevenPinker
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You can't compensate for having a foundation made of quicksand by building a new story on top. But this person takes no notice and hopes that the problem down in the foundation won't be found out if only the construction work on the top keeps going. #DavidBrooks
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You can't compensate for having a foundation made of quicksand by building a new story on top. But this person takes no notice and hopes that the problem down in the foundation won't be found out if only the construction work on the top keeps going. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 25, 2024
The Tragedy of the Commons is a tragedy of selfishness, but the Tragedy of Commonsense Morality is a tragedy of moral inflexibility. #JoshuaGreene
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Is there anything more dangerous than dissatisfied and irresponsible gods who don't know what they want? #YuvalNoahHarari
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We have two parties right? We have these primaries that basically now make it so that it's almost like you're not promoting people who are trying to be some kind of the centrists. You are basically promoting people who are the extreme of their party #MarkZuckerberg
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We have two parties right? We have these primaries that basically now make it so that it's almost like you're not promoting people who are trying to be some kind of the centrists. You are basically promoting people who are the extreme of their party #MarkZuckerberg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 24, 2024
[Culture] is organization, discipline of one's inner self, a coming to terms with one's own personality; it is the attainment of a higher awareness, with the aid of which one succeeds in understanding one's own historical value, one's own function in life... #AntonioGramsci
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[Culture] is organization, discipline of one's inner self, a coming to terms with one's own personality; it is the attainment of a higher awareness, with the aid of which one succeeds in understanding one's own historical value, one's own function in life... #AntonioGramsci — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 24, 2024
At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled. #MarshallRosenberg
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Those who distinguish civil from theological intolerance are, to my mind, mistaken #JeanJacquesRousseau
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In the company of 17th-century Dutch landscape painters, admiring grey clouds would be a prime virtue. If we lived around Balzac, Baudelaire or Proust, our apparently eccentric preferences for lying in bed thinking on weekends would be taken for granted. #TheSchoolOfLife
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In the company of 17th-century Dutch landscape painters, admiring grey clouds would be a prime virtue. If we lived around Balzac, Baudelaire or Proust, our apparently eccentric preferences for lying in bed thinking on weekends would be taken for granted. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 23, 2024
The purpose of school should be to prepare kids for the rest of their lives, but too often what kids need to be prepared for is surviving the school day itself. #SusanCain
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We saw this cross-level coherence in the analysis of personality: If your lower-level traits match up with your coping mechanisms, which in turn are consistent with your life story, your personality is well integrated and you can get on with the business of living. #JonathanHaidt
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We saw this cross-level coherence in the analysis of personality: If your lower-level traits match up with your coping mechanisms, which in turn are consistent with your life story, your personality is well integrated and you can get on with the business of living. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 23, 2024
That which is written without much effort is seldom read with much pleasure. #LeeKuanYew
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Pain is invisible, and known only to the sufferer. #HarukiMurakami
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Technological society has forgotten what scholars call the 'dying role' and its importance to people as life approaches its end. #AtulGawande
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The brain is like a muscle. The more you use certain things, the stronger the connection's getting, and the better things work. #JohannHari
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If you are genetically endowed with an optimistic bias, you hardly need to be told that you are a lucky person--you already feel fortunate. #DanielKahneman
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It was the dubious achievement of the newspapers of the nineteenth century to standardise the mind. They did to the varied fruits of our imaginations and intelligences a little of what industrialists like Henry Ford achieved in manufacturing #TheSchoolOfLife
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It was the dubious achievement of the newspapers of the nineteenth century to standardise the mind. They did to the varied fruits of our imaginations and intelligences a little of what industrialists like Henry Ford achieved in manufacturing #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 21, 2024
Gore Vidal, the American writer, once famously described the American economic system as 'free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the rich' #HaJoonChang
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And as excellent as our cognitive systems are, in the modern world we must know when to discount them and turn our reasoning over to instruments--the tools of logic, probability, and critical thinking that extend our powers of reason beyond what nature gave us. #StevenPinker
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And as excellent as our cognitive systems are, in the modern world we must know when to discount them and turn our reasoning over to instruments--the tools of logic, probability, and critical thinking that extend our powers of reason beyond what nature gave us. #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 21, 2024
We are defined by what we choose to reject. And if we reject nothing we essentially have no identity at all #MarkManson
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A job is a way of making a living, but work is a particular way of being needed, of fulfilling the responsibility that life has placed before you. #DavidBrooks
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It is impossible to analyze the meaning of life in the abstract, or in general, or for some mythical and perfectly rational being. #JonathanHaidt
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The Chimp does not necessarily work with facts but it works with what it believes is the truth or with a perception of the truth or, even worse, with a projection of what might be the truth. It is quick to form an impression on little, if any, evidence #StevePeters
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The Chimp does not necessarily work with facts but it works with what it believes is the truth or with a perception of the truth or, even worse, with a projection of what might be the truth. It is quick to form an impression on little, if any, evidence #StevePeters — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 20, 2024
In fact, I had sent [the literary journal Gunzo] my only copy [of Hear the Wind Sing]. If they hadn't selected it [for their Prize for New Writers], it probably would have vanished forever. I probably never would have written another novel. Life is strange... #HarukiMurakami
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In fact, I had sent [the literary journal Gunzo] my only copy [of Hear the Wind Sing]. If they hadn't selected it [for their Prize for New Writers], it probably would have vanished forever. I probably never would have written another novel. Life is strange... #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 19, 2024
The European model has created a class of people who have grown used to the subsidies and therefore lack a strong work ethic. #LeeKuanYew
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Who you are is defined by what you're willing to struggle for. #MarkManson
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[Live life to the fullest now:] Chase memorable life experiences, give money to your kids when they can best use it, donate money to charity while you're still alive. That's the way to live life... In the end, the business of life is the acquisition of memories #BillPerkins
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[Live life to the fullest now:] Chase memorable life experiences, give money to your kids when they can best use it, donate money to charity while you're still alive. That's the way to live life... In the end, the business of life is the acquisition of memories #BillPerkins — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 19, 2024
...lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads--at least that's where I imagine it--there's a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. #HarukiMurakami
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...lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads--at least that's where I imagine it--there's a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 19, 2024
...love has a redemptive power, Martin Luther King argued. It has the power to transform individuals and break down distrust. If you love a person and keep loving a person, they may lash out at first, but eventually they will break under the power of your care. #DavidBrooks
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...love has a redemptive power, Martin Luther King argued. It has the power to transform individuals and break down distrust. If you love a person and keep loving a person, they may lash out at first, but eventually they will break under the power of your care. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 18, 2024
He whose life has a why can bear almost any how. #Nietzsche
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The Bible had at best become like the work of Ovid or Homer: containing great truth, but not itself true. #DouglasMurray
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Remember, emotions themselves are neither good nor bad. They are simply our psychological responses to the events of life. #GaryChapman
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If you want to change how you see your problems, you have to change what you value and/or how you measure failure/success. #MarkManson
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Harmful, consensual sex happens and people should be allowed to speak freely using those terms. #AngelaChen
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If God is dead, Nietzsche is perhaps the person who stumbles across the corpse; nevertheless, it is Kant whose fingerprints are all over the murder weapon. #WillBuckingham
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A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble. #MahatmaGandhi
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The resistance to change and the ardent desire for it spring from the same conviction, and the one can be as vehement as the other. #EricHoffer
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China produced no religious themes in the Western sense at all. The Chinese never generated a myth of cosmic creation. #HenryKissinger
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...our interventions, and the risks and sacrifices they entail, are justified only if they serve the larger aims of a person's life. When we forget that, the suffering we inflict can be barbaric. When we remember it the good we do can be breathtaking. #AtulGawande
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...our interventions, and the risks and sacrifices they entail, are justified only if they serve the larger aims of a person's life. When we forget that, the suffering we inflict can be barbaric. When we remember it the good we do can be breathtaking. #AtulGawande — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 16, 2024
...it is easy to take off down a slippery slope, from one attention-grabbing simple idea to a feeling that this idea beautifully explains, or is the beautiful solution for, lots of other things. The world becomes simple. All problems have a single cause #HansRosling
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...it is easy to take off down a slippery slope, from one attention-grabbing simple idea to a feeling that this idea beautifully explains, or is the beautiful solution for, lots of other things. The world becomes simple. All problems have a single cause #HansRosling — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 16, 2024
So at most companies, an unspoken compact emerges: It's okay to be ambitious, but if you play too rough, your peers will unite against you. [Also] if you focus on boosting your own department, rather than undermining your rival, you'll probably get taken care of... #CharlesDuhigg
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So at most companies, an unspoken compact emerges: It's okay to be ambitious, but if you play too rough, your peers will unite against you. [Also] if you focus on boosting your own department, rather than undermining your rival, you'll probably get taken care of... #CharlesDuhigg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 15, 2024
A merchant, it has been said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country. #AdamSmith
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Bill Gates and Steve Jobs both severely limited their children's use of technology at home. #JennyOdell
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A civilisation that was more excited about the arrival of a train than the end of nature had forgotten its priorities. #TheSchoolOfLife
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We underestimate the strength we immediately acquire upon admitting that we're presently feeling very weak. #TheSchoolOfLife
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As death comes to embrace you, you will realise what you are. That's what death is, don't you think? #ItachiUchiha
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We can with kindness and good humour accept that being silly is entirely normal, wasting opportunities is universal, average sexuality is to be expected. Self-love shouldn't be predicated on the competitive idea that we must pull off extraordinary feats... #TheSchoolOfLife
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We can with kindness and good humour accept that being silly is entirely normal, wasting opportunities is universal, average sexuality is to be expected. Self-love shouldn't be predicated on the competitive idea that we must pull off extraordinary feats... #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 14, 2024
What's not always so clear in our minds is that the process of acquiring money has a range of built-in psychological opportunity costs that we too easily ignore. #TheSchoolOfLife
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Maybe the only thing I can definitely say about is this: That's life. Maybe the only thing we can do is accept it, without really knowing what's going on. #HarukiMurakami
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We want to meet our spouses emotional needs, and we reach out to speak his love language. In so doing, his emotional love tank is filled and chances are he will reciprocate and speak our language. When he does our emotions return, and our love tank begins to fill. #GaryChapman
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We want to meet our spouses emotional needs, and we reach out to speak his love language. In so doing, his emotional love tank is filled and chances are he will reciprocate and speak our language. When he does our emotions return, and our love tank begins to fill. #GaryChapman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 13, 2024
Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star. #Thoreau
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Traditionally, life has been divided into two main parts: a period of learning followed by a period of working. Very soon this traditional model will become utterly obsolete, and the only way for humans to stay in the game will be to keep learning... #YuvalNoahHarari
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Traditionally, life has been divided into two main parts: a period of learning followed by a period of working. Very soon this traditional model will become utterly obsolete, and the only way for humans to stay in the game will be to keep learning... #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 12, 2024
An oak tree is an oak tree. That is all it has to do. If an oak tree is less than an oak tree, then we are all in trouble. #ThichNhatHanh
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Learning self-control is important, but it's equally important to grow up in an environment where adults are consistently present and trustworthy. #BrianChristian
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Passionate love is the love you fall into [...] companionate love, in contrast, as the affection we feel for those with whom our lives are deeply intertwined. #JonathanHaidt
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Worst of all is to set up double-binds, like telling [people] that if they notice race it is because they are racist, but if they don't notice race it's because their privilege affords them the luxury of not noticing race, which is racist. #HelenPluckrose
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Worst of all is to set up double-binds, like telling [people] that if they notice race it is because they are racist, but if they don't notice race it's because their privilege affords them the luxury of not noticing race, which is racist. #HelenPluckrose — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 11, 2024
[Control of sexuality] can be expressed in many ways, like rape as a form of political conquest or slave owners marrying off their slaves and splitting families apart. It can look like enforcing purity rules only for women, perpetuating racist sexual stereotypes... #AngelaChen
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[Control of sexuality] can be expressed in many ways, like rape as a form of political conquest or slave owners marrying off their slaves and splitting families apart. It can look like enforcing purity rules only for women, perpetuating racist sexual stereotypes... #AngelaChen — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 11, 2024
...jolly person is different from a happy person; a happy person smiles because they feel like it; a jollying person smiles because they are compelled to, because there is all sorts of unprocessed grief inside them from which they are manically in flight. #TheSchoolOfLife
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...jolly person is different from a happy person; a happy person smiles because they feel like it; a jollying person smiles because they are compelled to, because there is all sorts of unprocessed grief inside them from which they are manically in flight. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 11, 2024
If you want to usher real change [...] you have to work with the sleazy legislators and the rough party pols. You have to be practical, subordinate your personal purity to the cause. Perkins learned that in a fallen world it is often the tainted people who help... #DavidBrooks
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If you want to usher real change [...] you have to work with the sleazy legislators and the rough party pols. You have to be practical, subordinate your personal purity to the cause. Perkins learned that in a fallen world it is often the tainted people who help... #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 11, 2024
...like the woman who was Tindering on her way to a date to try to find a better date afterward [...] Maybe we are trying to meet every single person in order to be sure we have the best. Maybe we have it all wrong. Maybe we need to have a little more faith in humanity #AzizAns…
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...like the woman who was Tindering on her way to a date to try to find a better date afterward [...] Maybe we are trying to meet every single person in order to be sure we have the best. Maybe we have it all wrong. Maybe we need to have a little more faith in humanity #AzizAns… — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 10, 2024
When we unknowingly submit to the algorithms that coax and shepherd our online selves, we jettison our own values for the agenda of hidden market forces. #DerrenBrown
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When one side overwhelms the other, the results are likely to be ugly. #JonathanHaidt
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IF YOUR CHILD IS READY FOR FIRST GRADE: 1979 EDITION [...] 3. Can your child tell, in such a way that his speech is understood by a school crossing guard or policeman, where he lives? 4. Can he draw and color and stay within the lines of the design being colored? #JonathanHaidt
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IF YOUR CHILD IS READY FOR FIRST GRADE: 1979 EDITION [...] 3. Can your child tell, in such a way that his speech is understood by a school crossing guard or policeman, where he lives? 4. Can he draw and color and stay within the lines of the design being colored? #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 9, 2024
The expectation of mutual fidelity is a rather recent invention. Numerous cultures have allowed husbands to seek sexual gratification outside marriage. Less frequently, but often enough to challenge common preconceptions, wives have also been allowed to do this #StephanieCoontz
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The expectation of mutual fidelity is a rather recent invention. Numerous cultures have allowed husbands to seek sexual gratification outside marriage. Less frequently, but often enough to challenge common preconceptions, wives have also been allowed to do this #StephanieCoontz — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 9, 2024
A list of ways in which we're stupid can't explain why we're so smart. #StevenPinker
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Mood evidently affects the operation of System 1 [i.e. intuitive thinking]: when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose touch with our intuition [...] good mood, intuition, creativity, gullibility, and increased reliance on System 1 form a cluster. #DanielKahneman
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Mood evidently affects the operation of System 1 [i.e. intuitive thinking]: when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose touch with our intuition [...] good mood, intuition, creativity, gullibility, and increased reliance on System 1 form a cluster. #DanielKahneman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 8, 2024
Common sense is a chaotic aggregate of disparate conceptions, and one can find there anything that one like. #AntonioGramsci
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When the expert is using her practical knowledge, she isn't thinking more; she is thinking less. She has built up a repertoire of skills through habit and has thereby extended the number of tasks she can perform without conscious awareness. #DavidBrooks
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When the expert is using her practical knowledge, she isn't thinking more; she is thinking less. She has built up a repertoire of skills through habit and has thereby extended the number of tasks she can perform without conscious awareness. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 5, 2024
When one consents to marry, one consents to be truly known, which is an ominous prospect; and so one bets on love to correct for the ordinariness of the impression, and to call forth the forgiveness that is invariably required by an accurate perception of oneself. #DavidBrooks
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When one consents to marry, one consents to be truly known, which is an ominous prospect; and so one bets on love to correct for the ordinariness of the impression, and to call forth the forgiveness that is invariably required by an accurate perception of oneself. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 5, 2024
To build and maintain hope, we need three things: a sense of control, a belief in the value of something, and a community. #MarkManson
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[Of emotional intimacy...] Respect has to do with feeling that your potential spouse has positive regard for your personhood, intellect, abilities and personality. Appreciation is that inner sense that your partner values your contribution to the relationship. #GaryChapman
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[Of emotional intimacy...] Respect has to do with feeling that your potential spouse has positive regard for your personhood, intellect, abilities and personality. Appreciation is that inner sense that your partner values your contribution to the relationship. #GaryChapman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 5, 2024
I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don't know why, some people fill the gaps but other people emphasize my loneliness. #AnaisNin
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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. #HarukiMurakami
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We say brain fart when we should really say cache miss. #BrianChristian
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I define judgments--both positive and negative--as life-alienating communication. #MarshallRosenberg
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Your brain has far more neural circuitry allocated for wanting rewards than for liking them. #JamesClear
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...differences of talent are as morally arbitrary as differences of class. #MichaelSandel
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...a private library is not an ego-boosting appendage but a research tool. Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. #NassimNicholasTaleb
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But the moral [Henry David Thoreau] drew was almost identical: to those who are inwardly free, there are riches enough available in a hut. #TheSchoolOfLife
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In friendship, we know instinctively how to deploy strategies of wisdom and consolation that we stubbornly refuse to apply to ourselves. #TheSchoolOfLife
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The same confidence that can lead to daring and creativity can lead to self-worship and arrogance. #DavidBrooks
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...there was the day [the new recruit who does nothing] spent riding the elevators up and down repeatedly. When a coworker saw this and asked if she was thinking again, she replied: it helps to see things from a different perspective. The employees became uneasy. #JennyOdell
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...there was the day [the new recruit who does nothing] spent riding the elevators up and down repeatedly. When a coworker saw this and asked if she was thinking again, she replied: it helps to see things from a different perspective. The employees became uneasy. #JennyOdell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 2, 2024
We talk about social service, service to the people, service to humanity, service to others who are far away, helping to bring peace to the world--but often we forget that it is the very people around us that we must live for first of all. #ThichNhatHanh
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We talk about social service, service to the people, service to humanity, service to others who are far away, helping to bring peace to the world--but often we forget that it is the very people around us that we must live for first of all. #ThichNhatHanh — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 1, 2024
Limited expertise. Don't claim expertise beyond your field: be humble about what you don't know. Be aware too of the limits of the expertise of others. #HansRosling
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