A person who embraces a calling doesn't take a direct route to self-fulfillment. #DavidBrooks
A person who embraces a calling doesn't take a direct route to self-fulfillment. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 11, 2025
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The extended family, the community, and religion may indeed have limited our freedom, sexual and otherwise, but in return they offered us a much-needed sense of belonging. #EstherPerel
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I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. #GloriaSteinem
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The authors are right to push back hard against the cultivation of fragility and victimhood, and to defend free speech as essential to the mission of higher education. #JonathanHaidt
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Psychologist Eckhard Hess described the pupil of the eye as a window to the soul. I reread it recently and again found it inspiring. #DanielKahneman
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Social harmony can be rewoven only by slowly recommitting to relationships and rebuilding trust. #DavidBrooks
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As far as we can tell from a purely scientific viewpoint, human life has absolutely no meaning. Humans are the outcome of blind evolutionary processes that operate without goal or purpose. Our actions are not part of some divine cosmic plan #YuvalNoahHarari
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As far as we can tell from a purely scientific viewpoint, human life has absolutely no meaning. Humans are the outcome of blind evolutionary processes that operate without goal or purpose. Our actions are not part of some divine cosmic plan #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 10, 2025
And once you understand that habits can change, you have the freedom and the responsibility to remake them. Once you understand that habits can be rebuilt, the power of habit becomes easier to grasp and the only option left is to get to work. #CharlesDuhigg
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And once you understand that habits can change, you have the freedom and the responsibility to remake them. Once you understand that habits can be rebuilt, the power of habit becomes easier to grasp and the only option left is to get to work. #CharlesDuhigg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 9, 2025
[Life's] a movie we walk into well after its opening scene, and we will have to step out long before most of the story lines reach their conclusions. We [are] aware that we need to know a great deal if we are to understand the few confusing minutes that we do watch #JonathanHaidt
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[Life's] a movie we walk into well after its opening scene, and we will have to step out long before most of the story lines reach their conclusions. We [are] aware that we need to know a great deal if we are to understand the few confusing minutes that we do watch #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 9, 2025
I didn't start running because somebody asked me to become a runner. Just like I didn't become a novelist because someone asked me to. One day, out of the blue, I wanted to write a novel. And one day, out of the blue, I started to run-simply because I wanted to. #HarukiMurakami
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I didn't start running because somebody asked me to become a runner. Just like I didn't become a novelist because someone asked me to. One day, out of the blue, I wanted to write a novel. And one day, out of the blue, I started to run-simply because I wanted to. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 9, 2025
I spend so much time on the Internet...I feel like I'm a million pages into the worst book ever, and I'm never going to stop reading. #AzizAnsari
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I don't think it's a coincidence that this crisis in paying attention has taken place at the same time as the worst crisis of democracy since the 1930s. People who can't focus will be more drawn to simplistic authoritarian solutions--and less likely to see clearly... #JohannHari
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I don't think it's a coincidence that this crisis in paying attention has taken place at the same time as the worst crisis of democracy since the 1930s. People who can't focus will be more drawn to simplistic authoritarian solutions--and less likely to see clearly... #JohannHari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 9, 2025
Count the significant events, the technological changes, and the inventions that have taken place in our environment since you were born and compare them to what was expected before their advent. How many of them came on a schedule? #NassimNicholasTaleb
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Count the significant events, the technological changes, and the inventions that have taken place in our environment since you were born and compare them to what was expected before their advent. How many of them came on a schedule? #NassimNicholasTaleb — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 9, 2025
In a society that trades in military metaphors when talking about illness--when cancer patients become warriors and survivors and cells foreign invaders--the idea of foregoing even the sliver of a chance for more time can feel like premature surrender #AnitaHannig
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In a society that trades in military metaphors when talking about illness--when cancer patients become warriors and survivors and cells foreign invaders--the idea of foregoing even the sliver of a chance for more time can feel like premature surrender #AnitaHannig — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 8, 2025
[If we] distort or deny any explanation that harks back to our hidden motives[, key] facts will remain taboo, and we'll forever be mystified by our own thoughts and actions. It's only by confronting the elephant, then, that we can begin to see what's really going on. #KevinSimler
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[If we] distort or deny any explanation that harks back to our hidden motives[, key] facts will remain taboo, and we'll forever be mystified by our own thoughts and actions. It's only by confronting the elephant, then, that we can begin to see what's really going on. #KevinSimler — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 8, 2025
Rescuing girls from brothels is the easy part... The challenge is keeping them from returning. The stigma that girls feel in their communities after being freed, coupled with drug dependencies or threats from pimps, often lead to return to the re-light district. #NicholasDKristof
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Rescuing girls from brothels is the easy part... The challenge is keeping them from returning. The stigma that girls feel in their communities after being freed, coupled with drug dependencies or threats from pimps, often lead to return to the re-light district. #NicholasDKristof — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 8, 2025
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made. #DavidBrooks
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I did the best I could with what I knew; now that I know better, I will do better. #MayaAngelou
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The more closely we analyse what we consider 'sexy', the more clearly we will understand that eroticism is the feeling of excitement we experience at finding another human being who shares our values and our sense of the meaning of existence. #AlaindeBotton
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The more closely we analyse what we consider 'sexy', the more clearly we will understand that eroticism is the feeling of excitement we experience at finding another human being who shares our values and our sense of the meaning of existence. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 7, 2025
Most people, in fact, will not take trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear. #Thucydides
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....the reason things will seem unbearable is not because they are hard but because we are soft. #WilliamBIrvine
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...art of travel seems naturally to sustain a number of questions neither so simple nor so trivial, and whose study might in modest ways contribute to an understanding of what the Greek philosophers beautifully termed eudaimonia, or 'human flourishing'. #AlaindeBotton
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...art of travel seems naturally to sustain a number of questions neither so simple nor so trivial, and whose study might in modest ways contribute to an understanding of what the Greek philosophers beautifully termed eudaimonia, or 'human flourishing'. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 6, 2025
Sometimes I feel so--I don't know--lonely. The kind of helpless feeling when everything you're used to has been ripped away. Like there's no more gravity, and I'm left to drift in outer space with no idea where I'm going' Like a little lost Sputnik?' I guess so. #HarukiMurakami
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Sometimes I feel so--I don't know--lonely. The kind of helpless feeling when everything you're used to has been ripped away. Like there's no more gravity, and I'm left to drift in outer space with no idea where I'm going' Like a little lost Sputnik?' I guess so. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 6, 2025
Our romantic options are unprecedented and our tools to sort and communicate with them are staggering. And that raises the question: Why are so many people frustrated? #AzizAnsari
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Take one ancient attachment system, mix with an equal measure of caregiving system, throw in a modified mating system and voila, that's romantic love. I seem to have lost something here; romantic love is so much more than the sum of its parts. #JonathanHaidt
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Take one ancient attachment system, mix with an equal measure of caregiving system, throw in a modified mating system and voila, that's romantic love. I seem to have lost something here; romantic love is so much more than the sum of its parts. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 5, 2025
[Life] lessons needed to be learned, just as its laws needed to be followed; then all would go well. Rather than turn away from the world of dust, Lao-tse advised others to join the dust of the world. What he saw operating behind everything [...] Tao, the Way. #BenjaminHoff
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[Life] lessons needed to be learned, just as its laws needed to be followed; then all would go well. Rather than turn away from the world of dust, Lao-tse advised others to join the dust of the world. What he saw operating behind everything [...] Tao, the Way. #BenjaminHoff — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 5, 2025
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. #WinstonChurchill
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There is no such thing as a hurt that is too small to matter when emotional closeness is at stake. #AlaindeBotton
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The heart, in a way, has to be selfish for its own preservation. So, don't let people tell you that you're selfish and wrong to follow your own heart. #VishenLakhiani
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It doesn't matter [that] there was honor in America's acknowledgment of moral wrong in the area of race. An acknowledgement of wrong was an acknowledgment of wrong, and it brought a loss of moral authority--and, thus, adult authority--despite the good it achieved. #ShelbySteele
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It doesn't matter [that] there was honor in America's acknowledgment of moral wrong in the area of race. An acknowledgement of wrong was an acknowledgment of wrong, and it brought a loss of moral authority--and, thus, adult authority--despite the good it achieved. #ShelbySteele — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 4, 2025
Although the lowest level of personality is mostly about the elephant, the life story is written primarily by the rider. You create your story in consciousness as you interpret your own behavior, and as you listen to other people's thoughts about you. #JonathanHaidt
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Although the lowest level of personality is mostly about the elephant, the life story is written primarily by the rider. You create your story in consciousness as you interpret your own behavior, and as you listen to other people's thoughts about you. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 4, 2025
So please do not resent me, my privileges make you better off than you would otherwise be, the inequality you find galling is for your own good. #MichaelSandel
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Even when we want to be timid and play it safe, we should pause for a moment to imagine what we might be missing. #PaulArden
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Love is the fundamental building block of all human relationships. It will greatly impact our values and morals. Love is the important ingredient in one's search for meaning. #GaryChapman
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I see it now--this world is swiftly passing. #Mahabharata
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The main purpose of CBT is to train oneself not to catastrophize and interpret every situation in the most negative light, and the goal is to develop a more positive and resilient attitude towards the world, so that one can engage with it as fully as possible. #HelenPluckrose
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The main purpose of CBT is to train oneself not to catastrophize and interpret every situation in the most negative light, and the goal is to develop a more positive and resilient attitude towards the world, so that one can engage with it as fully as possible. #HelenPluckrose — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 2, 2025
Public opinion is the worst of all opinions. #NicolasChamfort
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Unless there's something specifically about you or your job that requires it, there is nothing to be admired about being constantly connected, constantly potentially productive the second you open your eyes in the morningnd in my opinion, no one should accept this #JennyOdell
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Unless there's something specifically about you or your job that requires it, there is nothing to be admired about being constantly connected, constantly potentially productive the second you open your eyes in the morningnd in my opinion, no one should accept this #JennyOdell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 2, 2025
The moral worth of an action consists not in the consequences that flow from it, but in the intention from which the act is done. #MichaelSandel
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The unconscious mind [may] be reading the present through the lenses of decades ago, but what we fear will happen [has] already happened; we are projecting into the future a catastrophe [from] to a past we have not had the chance to fathom and mourn adequately. #TheSchoolOfLife
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The unconscious mind [may] be reading the present through the lenses of decades ago, but what we fear will happen [has] already happened; we are projecting into the future a catastrophe [from] to a past we have not had the chance to fathom and mourn adequately. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 1, 2025
Your great wealth and your great poverty, your capitalism and your socialism, your wars and your revolutions, your atheism and your pessimism and your cynicism, your immorality [...] those were characteristic marks of the dying ages of ancient States #OswaldSpengler
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Your great wealth and your great poverty, your capitalism and your socialism, your wars and your revolutions, your atheism and your pessimism and your cynicism, your immorality [...] those were characteristic marks of the dying ages of ancient States #OswaldSpengler — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 1, 2025
Disliking people rarely being a sufficient reason for not wanting them to like us #AlaindeBotton
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More than 90 percent of these accidents are caused by very human errors: somebody drinking alcohol and driving, somebody texting a message while driving, somebody falling asleep at the wheel, somebody daydreaming instead of paying attention to the road. #YuvalNoahHarari
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More than 90 percent of these accidents are caused by very human errors: somebody drinking alcohol and driving, somebody texting a message while driving, somebody falling asleep at the wheel, somebody daydreaming instead of paying attention to the road. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 1, 2025
The cultural anthropologists or literary scholars who avow that the truths of science are merely the narratives of one culture will still have their child's infection treated with antibiotics prescribed by a physician rather than a healing song performed by a shaman #StevenPinker
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The cultural anthropologists or literary scholars who avow that the truths of science are merely the narratives of one culture will still have their child's infection treated with antibiotics prescribed by a physician rather than a healing song performed by a shaman #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 31, 2025
Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat. #MartinHFischer
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People bind themselves into political teams that share moral narratives. Once they accept a particular narrative, they become blind to alternative moral worlds. #JonathanHaidt
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...brain exchanges, where I'd get on a sixty-minute call with a friend who was an expert on a topic and we'd share notes on our best practices. #VishenLakhiani
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Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing. #MarshallRosenberg
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The good tool gives no hint of the frailties of its maker. The very definition of sound working products is that they should be better than the people who made them. They should also ideally not fall apart so easily. We have to die, but they might go on... #TheSchoolOfLife
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The good tool gives no hint of the frailties of its maker. The very definition of sound working products is that they should be better than the people who made them. They should also ideally not fall apart so easily. We have to die, but they might go on... #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 30, 2025
...at the age of six months, long before they can walk or talk, human infants are making value judgments about actions and agents, reaching out to individuals who show signs of being cooperative (caring about others) and passing over individuals who do the opposite #JoshuaGreene
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...at the age of six months, long before they can walk or talk, human infants are making value judgments about actions and agents, reaching out to individuals who show signs of being cooperative (caring about others) and passing over individuals who do the opposite #JoshuaGreene — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 30, 2025
Humans nowadays completely dominate the planet not because the individual human is far smarter and more nimble-fingered than the individual chimp or wolf, but because Homo sapiens is the only species on earth capable of cooperating flexibly in large numbers. #YuvalNoahHarari
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Humans nowadays completely dominate the planet not because the individual human is far smarter and more nimble-fingered than the individual chimp or wolf, but because Homo sapiens is the only species on earth capable of cooperating flexibly in large numbers. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 29, 2025
Nothing has a greater effect on your ability to enjoy experiences--at any age--than your health. In fact, health is actually a lot more valuable than money, because no amount of money can ever make up for very poor health--whereas people in good health but with little money can…
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Nothing has a greater effect on your ability to enjoy experiences--at any age--than your health. In fact, health is actually a lot more valuable than money, because no amount of money can ever make up for very poor health--whereas people in good health but with little money can… — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 29, 2025
...no one has listened to us. So we come to social life greedy to speak rather than listen, hungry to meet others, but reluctant to hear them. #TheSchoolOfLife
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The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run. #Thoreau
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Feminism was not a dirty joke. The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a stage of evolution far short of their human capacity. The domestic function of woman does not exhaust her powers, the Rev. Theodore Parker [1853]. #BettyFriedan
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Feminism was not a dirty joke. The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a stage of evolution far short of their human capacity. The domestic function of woman does not exhaust her powers, the Rev. Theodore Parker [1853]. #BettyFriedan — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 28, 2025
Embrace your difficulties as they arise in your relationship. You belong to the Tao and to each other and therefore need not fear problems. Since you are not afraid, you welcome the problems while they are still small. Since they are small, they resolve themselves. #WilliamMartin
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Embrace your difficulties as they arise in your relationship. You belong to the Tao and to each other and therefore need not fear problems. Since you are not afraid, you welcome the problems while they are still small. Since they are small, they resolve themselves. #WilliamMartin — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 28, 2025
Reality is what one makes it. And the more negative reality one nurtures and creates, the more of it one has. #BenjaminHoff
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Being active every day makes it easier to hear that inner voice. #HarukiMurakami
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As Lao-tse pointed out, the bad can be raw material for the good. So quite often, the easiest way to get rid of a Minus is to change it into a Plus. #BenjaminHoff
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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. #Einstein
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It is with acts of attention that we decide who to hear, who to see, and who in our world has agency. In this way, attention forms the ground not just for love, but for ethics. #JennyOdell
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...Kierkegaard called the dizziness of freedom. When the external constraints are loosened, when a person can do what he wants, when there are a thousand choices and distractions, then life can lose coherence and direction if there isn't a strong internal structure #DavidBrooks
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...Kierkegaard called the dizziness of freedom. When the external constraints are loosened, when a person can do what he wants, when there are a thousand choices and distractions, then life can lose coherence and direction if there isn't a strong internal structure #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 26, 2025
Each one of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done. #SherylSandberg
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Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth. #Thoreau
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We should not expect individuals to produce good, open-minded, truth-seeking reasoning, particularly when self-interest or reputational concerns are in play. #JonathanHaidt
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...if morality is a set of adaptations for cooperation, we today are moral beings only because our morally minded ancestors outcompeted their less morally minded neighbors. #JoshuaGreene
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There is one other possibility to explain the oddity of the Enlightenment thinkers ending up so prominently in the firing line of our era. And that is this: The European Enlightenments were the greatest leap forward for the concept of objective truth #DouglasMurray
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There is one other possibility to explain the oddity of the Enlightenment thinkers ending up so prominently in the firing line of our era. And that is this: The European Enlightenments were the greatest leap forward for the concept of objective truth #DouglasMurray — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 25, 2025
I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning. #HarukiMurakami
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I view our job as empowering people to be able to express what they want and get the content that they want, and whenever we try to exert some kind of opinion that's different from what people want our products to do worse, and we exist in a very competitive space #MarkZuckerberg
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I view our job as empowering people to be able to express what they want and get the content that they want, and whenever we try to exert some kind of opinion that's different from what people want our products to do worse, and we exist in a very competitive space #MarkZuckerberg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 24, 2025
Pre-Socratic philosophy begins... with the discovery of Nature; Socratic philosophy begins with the discovery of man's soul. #WilliamBIrvine
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Markets express and promote certain attitudes to the goods being exchanged. #MichaelSandel
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The theory helps to restore a kind of justice that we may not ourselves directly be able to administer. The explanation of the origins of nastiness changes how we assess our opponent. No longer are they necessarily strong and impervious. #TheSchoolOfLife
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The theory helps to restore a kind of justice that we may not ourselves directly be able to administer. The explanation of the origins of nastiness changes how we assess our opponent. No longer are they necessarily strong and impervious. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 24, 2025
They have a job that sounds unimpressive, but their interests are very broad and they might be the ideal person to go round an antiques market with. #TheSchoolOfLife
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[Gossipers] withhold the truth, on which every act of compassion is based, that we are all sinners, every last one of us, not merely this or that miserable creature unlucky enough to have attracted the malicious attention of the latest hard-hearted journalist. #TheSchoolOfLife
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[Gossipers] withhold the truth, on which every act of compassion is based, that we are all sinners, every last one of us, not merely this or that miserable creature unlucky enough to have attracted the malicious attention of the latest hard-hearted journalist. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 23, 2025
In the sympathetic words of the New York Times: All admit to being deeply frustrated at times by the lack of privacy, the physical burden, the routine of family life, the confinement of it [but] none would give up her home and family if she had the choice to make again. #BettyF
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In the sympathetic words of the New York Times: All admit to being deeply frustrated at times by the lack of privacy, the physical burden, the routine of family life, the confinement of it [but] none would give up her home and family if she had the choice to make again. #BettyF — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 23, 2025
Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent. #HarukiMurakami
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Judging people before really seeing things through their eyes stands in the way of understanding their circumstances--and that isn't smart. #RayDalio
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It ought to be one of the most basic things we recognise about each other: a common fate we face. It's very sad. But it is not sad uniquely to any one person. It's a strangely consoling tragic idea that imagination always, inevitably, outstrips the potential. #TheSchoolOfLife
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It ought to be one of the most basic things we recognise about each other: a common fate we face. It's very sad. But it is not sad uniquely to any one person. It's a strangely consoling tragic idea that imagination always, inevitably, outstrips the potential. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 23, 2025
Strike the stone with the pebble, between the tall and hard wall and the egg, I will always stand on the side of the egg. #HarukiMurakami
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Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance. #DanielKahneman
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Imagine who you could be, and then aim single-mindedly at that. #JordanPeterson
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Virtues become vices when they are carried to an extreme. #JonathanHaidt
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...inside of Google's servers, there is a little voodoo doll, a model of you. It starts by not looking much like you [...] But then they're collecting your click trails [...] they have a doll like that for one in four human beings on earth. #JohannHari
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...inside of Google's servers, there is a little voodoo doll, a model of you. It starts by not looking much like you [...] But then they're collecting your click trails [...] they have a doll like that for one in four human beings on earth. #JohannHari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 22, 2025
As we read, we should become interested not only in what the author says but, as importantly, in what we might think. #TheSchoolOfLife
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Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. #MarcusAurelius
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Science is a smorgasbord, and google will guide you to the study that's right for you. #JonathanHaidt
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If someone is counting on children to bring them peace of mind, self-confidence, or a steady sense of happiness, they are in for a bad shock. What children do is complicate [...] There is no boredom with children in the home. The risks are high. The voltage crackling #EstherPerel
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If someone is counting on children to bring them peace of mind, self-confidence, or a steady sense of happiness, they are in for a bad shock. What children do is complicate [...] There is no boredom with children in the home. The risks are high. The voltage crackling #EstherPerel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 21, 2025
Mature understanding, on the other hand, always brings with it an appreciation of complexity, and therefore introduces our friend ambiguity. #DerrenBrown
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The woman who hates sex and may be repressed but who supports comprehensive sex education and pressures legislators to pass equal pay laws is a political success. The one who brags about using men but ignores the need for any greater action, less so. #AngelaChen
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The woman who hates sex and may be repressed but who supports comprehensive sex education and pressures legislators to pass equal pay laws is a political success. The one who brags about using men but ignores the need for any greater action, less so. #AngelaChen — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 20, 2025
[Social norms] constrain our selfish impulses, but [they can also] be fragile and hard to enforce. #RobinHanson
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Someone will need to sort out the mess in government, to ask themselves big questions around the economy and to fix the delays to the road-building programme, but this is not our job right now. Fate has imposed a different set of burdens upon us. #TheSchoolOfLife
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Someone will need to sort out the mess in government, to ask themselves big questions around the economy and to fix the delays to the road-building programme, but this is not our job right now. Fate has imposed a different set of burdens upon us. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 20, 2025
What amazed and humbled me about bird-watching was the way it changed the granularity of my perception, which had been pretty low-res. #JennyOdell
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So how can you change your automatic reactions? [...] Meditation is the Eastern way of training yourself to take things philosophically. Cognitive therapy works, too. #JonathanHaidt
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The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings of powerlessness. #CWrightMills
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The absence of romance in my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest #Thucydides
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On the receiving end of love, we crave not so much for someone to be awed by us as for them to see our failings clearly and yet to treat us with generosity and warmth. #TheSchoolOfLife
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Scholarship without erudition can lead to disasters. #NassimNicholasTaleb
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During our meditative sessions, we need to give every so-called small anxiety a chance to be heard: what lends our worries their force is not so much that we have them but that we don't allow ourselves the time to know, interpret and contextualise them adequately #TheSchoolOfLife
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During our meditative sessions, we need to give every so-called small anxiety a chance to be heard: what lends our worries their force is not so much that we have them but that we don't allow ourselves the time to know, interpret and contextualise them adequately #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 18, 2025
Freedom without structure is its own slavery. #DavidBrooks
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...for people who are outside the main system of Japanese society (the young in particular), there remains no effective alternative or safety net. As long as this crucial gap exists in our society, like a kind of black hole [...] incidents are bound to take place. #HarukiMurakami
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...for people who are outside the main system of Japanese society (the young in particular), there remains no effective alternative or safety net. As long as this crucial gap exists in our society, like a kind of black hole [...] incidents are bound to take place. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 18, 2025
The college admissions process nowadays makes it harder for high school students to enjoy school and pursue intrinsic fulfillment. The process warps the values of students drawn into a competitive frenzy and jeopardizes their mental health #JonathanHaidt
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The college admissions process nowadays makes it harder for high school students to enjoy school and pursue intrinsic fulfillment. The process warps the values of students drawn into a competitive frenzy and jeopardizes their mental health #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 18, 2025
We are far too willing to reject the belief that much of what we see in life is random. #DanielKahneman
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What we do in every other area of our lives (other than religion), is, rather than respect somebody's beliefs, we evaluate their reasons. #SamHarris
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Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics. #LordChesterfield
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Among the winners, it generates hubris; among the losers, humiliation and resentment. These moral sentiments are at the heart of the populist uprising against elites. #MichaelSandel
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Over time the body inevitably deteriorates. Sooner or later, it's defeated and disappears. When the body disintegrates, the spirit also (most likely) is gone too. I'm well aware of that. However, I'd like to postpone, for as long as I possibly can... #HarukiMurakami
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Over time the body inevitably deteriorates. Sooner or later, it's defeated and disappears. When the body disintegrates, the spirit also (most likely) is gone too. I'm well aware of that. However, I'd like to postpone, for as long as I possibly can... #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 17, 2025
This raises the possibility that the immense improvement in material conditions over the last two centuries was offset by the collapse of the family and the community. #YuvalNoahHarari
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...there's likely more insight to be gleaned where others aren't looking--it just won't seem as relevant to the current conversation... researchers who are out in the weeds can expect fewer citations (even if a small number of them will make big, juicy discoveries) #RobinHanson
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...there's likely more insight to be gleaned where others aren't looking--it just won't seem as relevant to the current conversation... researchers who are out in the weeds can expect fewer citations (even if a small number of them will make big, juicy discoveries) #RobinHanson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 16, 2025
We've underestimated utilitarianism because we've overestimated our own minds. We've mistakenly assumed that our gut reactions are reliable guides to moral truth. #JoshuaGreene
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Social cohesion is a necessity, and mankind has never yet succeeded in enforcing cohesion by merely rational arguments. #JonathanHaidt
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[Negative visualization teaches us] to enjoy what we have without clinging to it. #WilliamBIrvine
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We must live with our enemies as if they might one day become our friends, and live with our friends as if they might some time or other become our enemies #LaBruyere
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That's what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories. #HarukiMurakami
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I won't say if my candidate doesn't win, and probably half the time they haven't, I'm going to take my ball and go home #WarrenBuffett
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I am fond of reading in all shapes; but particularly such as tends to educate the mind and invigorate the spirit. #FrancoisdeLaRochefoucauld
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A fellow-man may with impunity be murdered under his window, for the philosopher has only to put his hands over his ears and argue a little with himself to prevent nature, which rebels inside him, from making him identify himself with the victim of the murder #JeanJacquesRousseau
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A fellow-man may with impunity be murdered under his window, for the philosopher has only to put his hands over his ears and argue a little with himself to prevent nature, which rebels inside him, from making him identify himself with the victim of the murder #JeanJacquesRousseau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 15, 2025
Disenchantment is not a one-way street. We are capable of a second, more accurate look. We can turn to art for hints on how to perform the manoeuvre of re-enchantment. Many works of art look with particular focus at what has been ignored and taken for granted. #TheSchoolOfLife
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Disenchantment is not a one-way street. We are capable of a second, more accurate look. We can turn to art for hints on how to perform the manoeuvre of re-enchantment. Many works of art look with particular focus at what has been ignored and taken for granted. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 15, 2025
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. #Aristotle
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With no evident awareness of the contradiction [the secular] may, in the same breath, gruffly dismiss a belief in angels while sincerely trusting that the combined powers of the IMF, the medical research establishment, Silicon Valley and democratic politics... #AlaindeBotton
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With no evident awareness of the contradiction [the secular] may, in the same breath, gruffly dismiss a belief in angels while sincerely trusting that the combined powers of the IMF, the medical research establishment, Silicon Valley and democratic politics... #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 14, 2025
So stay true to your own nature. If you like to do things in a slow and steady way, don't let others make you feel as if you have to race. If you enjoy depth, don't force yourself to seek breadth. If you prefer single-tasking to multi-tasking, stick to your guns. #SusanCain
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So stay true to your own nature. If you like to do things in a slow and steady way, don't let others make you feel as if you have to race. If you enjoy depth, don't force yourself to seek breadth. If you prefer single-tasking to multi-tasking, stick to your guns. #SusanCain — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 14, 2025
We believe we seek happiness in love, but actually what we often seek is familiarity--which may complicate any plans we might have for happiness. #TheSchoolOfLife
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[Through reading widely] in my imagination I traveled freely through time and space, saw all kinds of amazing sights, and let all kinds of words pass right through my very body. Through all this, my perspective on life became a more composite view. #HarukiMurakami
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[Through reading widely] in my imagination I traveled freely through time and space, saw all kinds of amazing sights, and let all kinds of words pass right through my very body. Through all this, my perspective on life became a more composite view. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 14, 2025
Experience has taught me that silence is part of the spiritual discipline of a votary of truth. #MahatmaGandhi
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...the muscles in our brain that help us with spontaneous conversation are getting less exercise in the text-filled world, so our skills are declining. #AzizAnsari
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We base our ideas about the world on our personal experience, and that experience has ingrained the rate of growth of the recent past in our heads as the way things happen. #TimUrban
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It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay. #EricHoffer
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What identifies gossip is the pretence that only certain people are foolish, sexual, embarrassing and prone to lose their tempers or say things they regret. #TheSchoolOfLife
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It turns out that in being asked what we do, we aren't really being asked what we do but what we are worth--and, more precisely, whether or not we are worth knowing. #TheSchoolOfLife
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Intuitive probability is driven by imaginability: the easier something is to visualize, the likelier it seems. This entraps us into what Tversky and Kahneman call the conjunction fallacy in which a conjunction is more intuitively probable than either of its elements #StevenPinker
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Intuitive probability is driven by imaginability: the easier something is to visualize, the likelier it seems. This entraps us into what Tversky and Kahneman call the conjunction fallacy in which a conjunction is more intuitively probable than either of its elements #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 12, 2025
[Principal characteristics of nationalist thought] obsession, instability, indifference to reality #GeorgeOrwell
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Giorgio de Chirico foresaw a narrowing horizon for activities as unproductive as observation. #JennyOdell
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The history that now effects everyman is world history #CWrightMills
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System 1 [intuitive thinking] continuously generates suggestions for System 2: impressions, intuitions, intentions, and feelings. If endorsed by System 2 [deliberate thinking], impressions and intuitions turn into beliefs, and impulses turn into voluntary actions. #DanielKahneman
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System 1 [intuitive thinking] continuously generates suggestions for System 2: impressions, intuitions, intentions, and feelings. If endorsed by System 2 [deliberate thinking], impressions and intuitions turn into beliefs, and impulses turn into voluntary actions. #DanielKahneman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 11, 2025
...jealous, restricted and ultimately meaner... It is a romantic love which sends us on a maniacal quest for a single person with whom we hope to achieve a life-long and complete communion, one person in particular who will spare us any need for people in general. #AlaindeBotton
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...jealous, restricted and ultimately meaner... It is a romantic love which sends us on a maniacal quest for a single person with whom we hope to achieve a life-long and complete communion, one person in particular who will spare us any need for people in general. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 11, 2025
People get so caught up in the fact that they have limits that they rarely exert the effort required to get close to them. #JamesClear
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Introverts focus on the meaning they make of the events swirling around them; extroverts plunge into the events themselves. #SusanCain
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Perhaps it may make sacrifices, and expose itself to an uncertain future by demagogic promises; but it retains power, reinforces it for the time being, and uses it to crush its adversary and disperse his leading cadres, who cannot be very numerous or highly trained. #AntonioGra…
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Perhaps it may make sacrifices, and expose itself to an uncertain future by demagogic promises; but it retains power, reinforces it for the time being, and uses it to crush its adversary and disperse his leading cadres, who cannot be very numerous or highly trained. #AntonioGra… — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 10, 2025
How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy. #MarcusAurelius
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Your life is important. Honor it. Fight for your highest possibilities. #NathanielBranden
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You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm. #SamHarris
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You're always the person you were when you were born, she says impatiently. You just keep finding new ways to express it. #GloriaSteinem
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But the [terminal cancer patients] who did have discussions were far less likely to undergo cardiopulmonary resuscitation or be put on a ventilator or end up in an intensive care unit. Most of them enrolled in hospice. They suffered less, were physically more capable #AtulGawande
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But the [terminal cancer patients] who did have discussions were far less likely to undergo cardiopulmonary resuscitation or be put on a ventilator or end up in an intensive care unit. Most of them enrolled in hospice. They suffered less, were physically more capable #AtulGawande — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 9, 2025
[Self-deception theory, Robert Trivers] the conscious mind sometimes hides the truth from itself the better to hide it from others. But the truth is useful, so it should be registered somewhere in the mind, walled off from the parts that interact with other people. #StevenPinker
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[Self-deception theory, Robert Trivers] the conscious mind sometimes hides the truth from itself the better to hide it from others. But the truth is useful, so it should be registered somewhere in the mind, walled off from the parts that interact with other people. #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 9, 2025
The most important thing [kids] can do with that time is to play, especially in free play, outdoors, with other kids. #JonathanHaidt
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...maladjusted people, people who believe they are superior to the rest of humanity because they have memorized a certain number of facts and dates and who rattle them off at every opportunity, so turning them almost into a barrier between themselves and others. #AntonioGramsci
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...maladjusted people, people who believe they are superior to the rest of humanity because they have memorized a certain number of facts and dates and who rattle them off at every opportunity, so turning them almost into a barrier between themselves and others. #AntonioGramsci — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 8, 2025
When Franklin D. Roosevelt was asked what book he could give the Soviets to teach them about the advantages of American society, he pointed to the Sears catalogue. #AlaindeBotton
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Homogeneity is a death sentence. To rid a species of its mutants and outliers is to make that species dangerously vulnerable to the elements #LuluMiller
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Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else. #GloriaSteinem
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If you look to your children to provide meaning for your life, your life will be meaningless. If you need them to be successful to feel successful [...], you will always fail. Your children were not born to complete your life. They were born to complete their own. #WilliamMartin
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If you look to your children to provide meaning for your life, your life will be meaningless. If you need them to be successful to feel successful [...], you will always fail. Your children were not born to complete your life. They were born to complete their own. #WilliamMartin — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 7, 2025