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Only because of the strength of a coalition of European armies at the battle of Vienna in 1683 did Europe avoid Ottoman rule. #DouglasMurray

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Only because of the strength of a coalition of European armies at the battle of Vienna in 1683 did Europe avoid Ottoman rule. #DouglasMurray — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 24, 2025
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Divorce (with kids involved) is crazy expensive and thus a very, very bad investment. #JoshuaBrown

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Divorce (with kids involved) is crazy expensive and thus a very, very bad investment. #JoshuaBrown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 24, 2025
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We are now creating tame humans that produce enormous amounts of data and function as very efficient chips in a huge data-processing mechanism, but these data-cows hardly maximize the human potential. #YuvalNoahHarari

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We are now creating tame humans that produce enormous amounts of data and function as very efficient chips in a huge data-processing mechanism, but these data-cows hardly maximize the human potential. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 24, 2025
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As a psychotherapist I see that nothing does as much for an individual's self-esteem as becoming aware of and accepting disowned parts of the self. #NathanielBranden

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As a psychotherapist I see that nothing does as much for an individual's self-esteem as becoming aware of and accepting disowned parts of the self. #NathanielBranden — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 23, 2025
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The most boring and unproductive question one can ask of any religion is whether or not it is true. #AlaindeBotton

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The most boring and unproductive question one can ask of any religion is whether or not it is true. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 23, 2025
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It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction #BenGoldacre

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It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction #BenGoldacre — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 23, 2025
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If you are trying to change an organization or a society and you do not consider the effects of your changes on moral capital, you're asking for trouble. This, I believe, is the fundamental blind spot of the left. It explains why liberal reforms so often backfire #JonathanHaidt

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If you are trying to change an organization or a society and you do not consider the effects of your changes on moral capital, you're asking for trouble. This, I believe, is the fundamental blind spot of the left. It explains why liberal reforms so often backfire #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 23, 2025
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...everything has its own place and function. That applies to people, although many don't seem to realize it, stuck as they are in the wrong job, the wrong marriage, or the wrong house. When you know and respect your own Inner Nature, you know where you belong. #BenjaminHoff

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...everything has its own place and function. That applies to people, although many don't seem to realize it, stuck as they are in the wrong job, the wrong marriage, or the wrong house. When you know and respect your own Inner Nature, you know where you belong. #BenjaminHoff — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 23, 2025
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A habit is a formula our brain automatically follows: When I see CUE, I will do ROUTINE in order to get a REWARD. To re-engineer that formula, we need to begin making choices again. #CharlesDuhigg

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A habit is a formula our brain automatically follows: When I see CUE, I will do ROUTINE in order to get a REWARD. To re-engineer that formula, we need to begin making choices again. #CharlesDuhigg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 22, 2025
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Sometimes the professor would indulge in mumbling to himself--this was dubbed conversing with God at Harvard. If a student made some illuminating statement, the professor would look pointedly at the student. After class, they might continue the discussion in a bar. #QianNing

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Sometimes the professor would indulge in mumbling to himself--this was dubbed conversing with God at Harvard. If a student made some illuminating statement, the professor would look pointedly at the student. After class, they might continue the discussion in a bar. #QianNing — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 22, 2025
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...it may be that you are awake not because you have the wrong mattress or looked at your phone an hour before turning in, but because your mind is unusually punishing, ruthless and conscientious, for reasons that you deserve to investigate... #TheSchoolOfLife

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...it may be that you are awake not because you have the wrong mattress or looked at your phone an hour before turning in, but because your mind is unusually punishing, ruthless and conscientious, for reasons that you deserve to investigate... #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 22, 2025
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But people don't have affairs because they are able to meet attractive others, they have affairs because they feel emotionally disconnected from their partners. #TheSchoolOfLife

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But people don't have affairs because they are able to meet attractive others, they have affairs because they feel emotionally disconnected from their partners. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 22, 2025
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Political freedom is great. But personal, social, and emotional freedom--when it becomes an ultimate end--absolutely sucks. It leads to a random, busy life with no discernible direction, no firm foundation, and in which, as Marx put it, all that's solid melts to air. #DavidBrooks

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Political freedom is great. But personal, social, and emotional freedom--when it becomes an ultimate end--absolutely sucks. It leads to a random, busy life with no discernible direction, no firm foundation, and in which, as Marx put it, all that's solid melts to air. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 21, 2025
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Homophobia commonly belies conflicts felt by the aggressor regarding his or her own sexuality; if we shut off something within ourselves, we must expect it to noisily rattle its cage. #DerrenBrown

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Homophobia commonly belies conflicts felt by the aggressor regarding his or her own sexuality; if we shut off something within ourselves, we must expect it to noisily rattle its cage. #DerrenBrown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 21, 2025
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The life story is not the work of a historian--remember that the rider has no access to the real causes of your behavior; it is more like a work of historical fiction that makes plenty of references to real events and connects them by dramatizations... #JonathanHaidt

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The life story is not the work of a historian--remember that the rider has no access to the real causes of your behavior; it is more like a work of historical fiction that makes plenty of references to real events and connects them by dramatizations... #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 21, 2025
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Being satisfied with being single is a precondition of satisfactory coupledom. We cannot choose wisely when remaining single feels unbearable. #TheSchoolOfLife

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Being satisfied with being single is a precondition of satisfactory coupledom. We cannot choose wisely when remaining single feels unbearable. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 21, 2025
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[As] elephants live in herds, one ends up doing what everyone else is doing. Yet the human mind has a rider, and as the rider begins to think more abstractly in adolescence, there may come a time when he looks around, past the edges of the herd, and asks: [Why?] #JonathanHaidt

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[As] elephants live in herds, one ends up doing what everyone else is doing. Yet the human mind has a rider, and as the rider begins to think more abstractly in adolescence, there may come a time when he looks around, past the edges of the herd, and asks: [Why?] #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 21, 2025
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But I would argue that in many cases, such plans [of conforming to societal expectations] can become a kind of mind trap, forcing us to pursue a preconceived kind of happiness that we may never reach or that, once reached, may never make us happy. #StephanieCacioppo

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But I would argue that in many cases, such plans [of conforming to societal expectations] can become a kind of mind trap, forcing us to pursue a preconceived kind of happiness that we may never reach or that, once reached, may never make us happy. #StephanieCacioppo — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 21, 2025
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There is no use expecting to be remembered by the name our parents thoughtfully gave to a small assemblage of cells--all now long dead [...] We are not strangers to death: atom by atom, we've been falling apart and being remade for over thirteen billion years. #TheSchoolOfLife

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There is no use expecting to be remembered by the name our parents thoughtfully gave to a small assemblage of cells--all now long dead [...] We are not strangers to death: atom by atom, we've been falling apart and being remade for over thirteen billion years. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 6, 2025
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So you're going to horrible places and meeting horrible people and you're complaining about it? Live your life like a decent person. Go to the grocery store, buy your own food, take care of yourself. If you live a responsible life, you'll run into responsible people #AzizAnsari

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So you're going to horrible places and meeting horrible people and you're complaining about it? Live your life like a decent person. Go to the grocery store, buy your own food, take care of yourself. If you live a responsible life, you'll run into responsible people #AzizAnsari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 6, 2025
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People with character also have scope. They are not infinitely flexible, free-floating, and solitary. They are anchored by permanent attachments to important things. In the realm of the intellect, they have a set of permanent convictions about fundamental truths. #DavidBrooks

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People with character also have scope. They are not infinitely flexible, free-floating, and solitary. They are anchored by permanent attachments to important things. In the realm of the intellect, they have a set of permanent convictions about fundamental truths. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 6, 2025
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...many intellectuals seek their salvation in either in critical thought or creative activity. #SimonedeBeauvoir

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...many intellectuals seek their salvation in either in critical thought or creative activity. #SimonedeBeauvoir — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 6, 2025
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Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity [..] source of hope, empathy, accountability, and authenticity. If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path #BreneBrown

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Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity [..] source of hope, empathy, accountability, and authenticity. If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path #BreneBrown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 6, 2025
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He that conquereth his own soul is greater than he who taketh a city. #DavidBrooks

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He that conquereth his own soul is greater than he who taketh a city. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 5, 2025
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When we forget that [stories] are mere fiction, we lose touch with reality. Then we begin entire wars o make a lot of money for the cooperation' or 'to protect the national interest'. #YuvalNoahHarari

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When we forget that [stories] are mere fiction, we lose touch with reality. Then we begin entire wars o make a lot of money for the cooperation' or 'to protect the national interest'. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 5, 2025
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IN MY OPINION (and this is based on my experience), having nothing you feel compelled to write about may make it harder to get started, but once the engine kicks in and the vehicle starts rolling, the writing is actually easier. #HarukiMurakami

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IN MY OPINION (and this is based on my experience), having nothing you feel compelled to write about may make it harder to get started, but once the engine kicks in and the vehicle starts rolling, the writing is actually easier. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 5, 2025
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The good listener is acutely aware of how insane we all are. #TheSchoolOfLife

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The good listener is acutely aware of how insane we all are. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 5, 2025
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Church, and (religiously) performs the rites and ceremonies laid down by their Church. #PaulArden

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Church, and (religiously) performs the rites and ceremonies laid down by their Church. #PaulArden — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 5, 2025
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We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act. #CharlesDarwin

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We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act. #CharlesDarwin — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 4, 2025
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Attachments and relationships can bring us pain: As a character in Jean-Paul Sartre's play No Exit said, Hell is other people. But so is heaven. #JonathanHaidt

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Attachments and relationships can bring us pain: As a character in Jean-Paul Sartre's play No Exit said, Hell is other people. But so is heaven. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 4, 2025
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Yet to nod to, let alone express, the downsides of immigration is to invite accusations of closed-mindedness and intolerance, xenophobia and barely disguised racism. All of which leaves the attitude of the majority of the public almost impossible to express. #DouglasMurray

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Yet to nod to, let alone express, the downsides of immigration is to invite accusations of closed-mindedness and intolerance, xenophobia and barely disguised racism. All of which leaves the attitude of the majority of the public almost impossible to express. #DouglasMurray — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 4, 2025
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You cannot force someone to accept an expression of love. You can only offer it. If it is not accepted, you must respect the other person's decision. #GaryChapman

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You cannot force someone to accept an expression of love. You can only offer it. If it is not accepted, you must respect the other person's decision. #GaryChapman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 4, 2025
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...although endlessly brooding on power, victory, defeat, revenge, the nationalist is often somewhat uninterested in what happens in the real world. #GeorgeOrwell

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...although endlessly brooding on power, victory, defeat, revenge, the nationalist is often somewhat uninterested in what happens in the real world. #GeorgeOrwell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 4, 2025
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Over the years of seeing people suffer some terrible life events and situations, I am struck by those who chose to make the best of it and come back smiling and positive. #StevePeters

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Over the years of seeing people suffer some terrible life events and situations, I am struck by those who chose to make the best of it and come back smiling and positive. #StevePeters — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 3, 2025
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But overprotection is just one part of a larger trend that we call problems of progress. This term refers to bad consequences produced by otherwise good social changes. #JonathanHaidt

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But overprotection is just one part of a larger trend that we call problems of progress. This term refers to bad consequences produced by otherwise good social changes. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 3, 2025
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Trading--offering something in return for my neighbor's help--is how we sustain the power of specialization. #RussRoberts

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Trading--offering something in return for my neighbor's help--is how we sustain the power of specialization. #RussRoberts — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 3, 2025
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Women, and young men, are very apt to tell what secrets they know, from the vanity of having been trusted #LordChesterfield

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Women, and young men, are very apt to tell what secrets they know, from the vanity of having been trusted #LordChesterfield — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 3, 2025
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People naturally prefer to avoid the subject of their decrepitude. There have been dozens of bestselling books on aging, but they tend to have titles such as Younger Next Year, The Fountain of Age, Ageless, or--my favorite--The Sexy Years. #AtulGawande

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People naturally prefer to avoid the subject of their decrepitude. There have been dozens of bestselling books on aging, but they tend to have titles such as Younger Next Year, The Fountain of Age, Ageless, or--my favorite--The Sexy Years. #AtulGawande — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 3, 2025
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The emerging adulthood phase of life is basically a pass society gives you to hang out in the hallway and figure out what door is really right for you. Being in that hallway might be frustrating at times, but ideally you grow and mature, and you find a door #AzizAnsari

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The emerging adulthood phase of life is basically a pass society gives you to hang out in the hallway and figure out what door is really right for you. Being in that hallway might be frustrating at times, but ideally you grow and mature, and you find a door #AzizAnsari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 3, 2025
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The manner in which we speak is exceedingly important [...] A soft answer turns away anger. When your spouse is angry and upset and lashing out words of heat, if you choose to be loving, you will not reciprocate with additional heat but with a soft voice. #GaryChapman

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The manner in which we speak is exceedingly important [...] A soft answer turns away anger. When your spouse is angry and upset and lashing out words of heat, if you choose to be loving, you will not reciprocate with additional heat but with a soft voice. #GaryChapman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 2, 2025
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The sweatshops, the rubbish dumps, the waste waters, the exhausted commuters--all these are to be lamented, but the real targets of puzzlement and rage lie elsewhere: in the fractious atmosphere inside luxury sedans, in the heartbreaks inside gated compounds... #TheSchoolOfLife

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The sweatshops, the rubbish dumps, the waste waters, the exhausted commuters--all these are to be lamented, but the real targets of puzzlement and rage lie elsewhere: in the fractious atmosphere inside luxury sedans, in the heartbreaks inside gated compounds... #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 2, 2025
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Uncivilised man has not this admirable talent; and for want of reason and wisdom, is always foolishly ready to obey the first promptings of humanity. #JeanJacquesRousseau

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Uncivilised man has not this admirable talent; and for want of reason and wisdom, is always foolishly ready to obey the first promptings of humanity. #JeanJacquesRousseau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 2, 2025
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As we see more and more people online, it can get difficult to remember that behind every text message, OkCupid profile, and Tinder picture there's an actual living, breathing, complex person, just like you. #AzizAnsari

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As we see more and more people online, it can get difficult to remember that behind every text message, OkCupid profile, and Tinder picture there's an actual living, breathing, complex person, just like you. #AzizAnsari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 2, 2025
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I have decided to stick to love... Hate is too great a burden to bear. #MartinLutherKingJr

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I have decided to stick to love... Hate is too great a burden to bear. #MartinLutherKingJr — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 2, 2025
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Being put in our place by something larger, older, greater than ourselves is not a humiliation; it should be accepted as a relief from our insanely hopeful ambitions for our lives. #AlaindeBotton

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Being put in our place by something larger, older, greater than ourselves is not a humiliation; it should be accepted as a relief from our insanely hopeful ambitions for our lives. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 2, 2025
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Why are we so efficient and yet so overwhelmed? Why are we so productive with so little to show for it? #CelesteHeadlee

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Why are we so efficient and yet so overwhelmed? Why are we so productive with so little to show for it? #CelesteHeadlee — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 1, 2025
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When I had to mobilise the people, I took advantage of this communitarian spirit where you put the community ahead of the individual and I got them to follow me and said: Look, this is good for the community. #LeeKuanYew

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When I had to mobilise the people, I took advantage of this communitarian spirit where you put the community ahead of the individual and I got them to follow me and said: Look, this is good for the community. #LeeKuanYew — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 1, 2025
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If you want to go deeply into any subject, you need a lot of time, and in particular you need the privilege of wasting time. #YuvalNoahHarari

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If you want to go deeply into any subject, you need a lot of time, and in particular you need the privilege of wasting time. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 1, 2025
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[Riches] you accumulate will just raise your expectations and leave you no better off than you were before. Yet, not realizing the futility of our efforts, we continue to strive, all the while doing things that help us win at the game of life. Always wanting more #JonathanHaidt

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[Riches] you accumulate will just raise your expectations and leave you no better off than you were before. Yet, not realizing the futility of our efforts, we continue to strive, all the while doing things that help us win at the game of life. Always wanting more #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 1, 2025
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