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While the earth was left to its natural fertility and covered with immense forests, whose trees were never mutilated by the axe, it would present on every side both sustenance and shelter for every species of animal. #JeanJacquesRousseau

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While the earth was left to its natural fertility and covered with immense forests, whose trees were never mutilated by the axe, it would present on every side both sustenance and shelter for every species of animal. #JeanJacquesRousseau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 25, 2026
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By the end of [1950s], the average marriage age of women in America dropped to 20, and was still dropping, into the teens. [14M] girls were engaged by 17. The proportion of women attending college in comparison with men dropped from [47%] in 1920 to [35%] in 1958. #BettyFriedan

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By the end of [1950s], the average marriage age of women in America dropped to 20, and was still dropping, into the teens. [14M] girls were engaged by 17. The proportion of women attending college in comparison with men dropped from [47%] in 1920 to [35%] in 1958. #BettyFriedan — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 24, 2026
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The moment anyone becomes famous should always be considered--by those who really care for them--as a time for mourning. #TheSchoolOfLife

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The moment anyone becomes famous should always be considered--by those who really care for them--as a time for mourning. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 23, 2026
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The idea that we're pleasure-seeking animals tragically constrained by the encumbrances of civilization is a lot more palatable than the idea that we're destruction-seeking animals pursuing opportunities to degrade and humiliate ourselves in front of the world. #LauraKipnis

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The idea that we're pleasure-seeking animals tragically constrained by the encumbrances of civilization is a lot more palatable than the idea that we're destruction-seeking animals pursuing opportunities to degrade and humiliate ourselves in front of the world. #LauraKipnis — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 21, 2026
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A connected and educated populace, at least in aggregate and over the long run, is bound to be disabused of poisonous beliefs, such as that members of other races and ethnicities are innately avaricious or perfidious #StevenPinker

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A connected and educated populace, at least in aggregate and over the long run, is bound to be disabused of poisonous beliefs, such as that members of other races and ethnicities are innately avaricious or perfidious #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 19, 2026
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Krsna consciousness simply deals with our eternal relationship with Him and the process of discharging our relative duties to Him. #ACPrabhupada

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Krsna consciousness simply deals with our eternal relationship with Him and the process of discharging our relative duties to Him. #ACPrabhupada — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 17, 2026
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Love is a kind of insanity, and many people have, while crazed with passion, ruined their lives and those of others. #JonathanHaidt

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Love is a kind of insanity, and many people have, while crazed with passion, ruined their lives and those of others. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 16, 2026
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What seems unreasonable, unrealistic and impossible today can turn out to be inevitable tomorrow. It's time for a new realism. It's time for a new view of humankind. #RutgerBregman

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What seems unreasonable, unrealistic and impossible today can turn out to be inevitable tomorrow. It's time for a new realism. It's time for a new view of humankind. #RutgerBregman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 10, 2026
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Just as the DSM is thoroughly revised every ten or fifteen years, the classification of strengths and virtues (known among positive psychologists as the un-DSM) is sure to be revised and improved in a few years. #JonathanHaidt

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Just as the DSM is thoroughly revised every ten or fifteen years, the classification of strengths and virtues (known among positive psychologists as the un-DSM) is sure to be revised and improved in a few years. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 9, 2026
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The quotation falsely attributed to Stalin, 'One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic,' gets the numbers wrong but captures a real fact about human psychology. #StevenPinker

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The quotation falsely attributed to Stalin, 'One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic,' gets the numbers wrong but captures a real fact about human psychology. #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 5, 2026
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And the beauty of Laplace's Law is that it works equally well whether we have a single data point or millions of them. #BrianChristian

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And the beauty of Laplace's Law is that it works equally well whether we have a single data point or millions of them. #BrianChristian — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 5, 2026
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Another day, coming out of the supermarket, amidst a throng of people, you catch sight of a face for no longer than eight seconds and yet, here too, you feel the same overwhelming certainty--and, subsequently, a bittersweet sadness at their disappearance... #TheSchoolOfLife

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Another day, coming out of the supermarket, amidst a throng of people, you catch sight of a face for no longer than eight seconds and yet, here too, you feel the same overwhelming certainty--and, subsequently, a bittersweet sadness at their disappearance... #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 4, 2026
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The only actions for which a person is accountable to society, Mill argues, are those that affect others. As long as I am not harming anyone else, my independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. #MichaelSandel

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The only actions for which a person is accountable to society, Mill argues, are those that affect others. As long as I am not harming anyone else, my independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. #MichaelSandel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 3, 2026
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The public apparently felt that restrictions on freedom of speech would do more harm to society than would allowing pornographic publications; hence the public had a tolerant attitude. #QianNing

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The public apparently felt that restrictions on freedom of speech would do more harm to society than would allowing pornographic publications; hence the public had a tolerant attitude. #QianNing — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 28, 2026
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We [men] are in prison because the traditional breadwinning expectation of manhood can't be met, or the pressure to conform is too great, or the option of violence has been frowned upon but implicitly sanctioned since we were children. #RobertWebb

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We [men] are in prison because the traditional breadwinning expectation of manhood can't be met, or the pressure to conform is too great, or the option of violence has been frowned upon but implicitly sanctioned since we were children. #RobertWebb — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 26, 2026
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An urgent wish is no guarantor of a sound solution. #AlaindeBotton

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An urgent wish is no guarantor of a sound solution. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 25, 2026
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Recognizing that every single person, you and me included, comes with his or her own bag of beliefs that should be challenged by others. The power of diversity helps our team avoid biases, make better decisions, and think more creatively. #JulieZhuo

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Recognizing that every single person, you and me included, comes with his or her own bag of beliefs that should be challenged by others. The power of diversity helps our team avoid biases, make better decisions, and think more creatively. #JulieZhuo — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 21, 2026
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...as a result of always asking others what we are and never daring to put the question to ourselves in the midst of so much philosophy, humanity, civility and so many sublime maxims, we have only fa蓷des, deceptive and frivolous, honour without virtue... #JeanJacquesRousseau

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...as a result of always asking others what we are and never daring to put the question to ourselves in the midst of so much philosophy, humanity, civility and so many sublime maxims, we have only fa蓷des, deceptive and frivolous, honour without virtue... #JeanJacquesRousseau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 21, 2026
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Prudence means, in modern terms, taking care of yourself, justice means not hurting others, and beneficence means being good to others. That's not a bad trio for thinking about how to live the good life. #RussRoberts

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Prudence means, in modern terms, taking care of yourself, justice means not hurting others, and beneficence means being good to others. That's not a bad trio for thinking about how to live the good life. #RussRoberts — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 19, 2026
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The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and powerful, and to despise, or, at least, neglect persons of poor or mean conditions... is the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments. #AdamSmith

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The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and powerful, and to despise, or, at least, neglect persons of poor or mean conditions... is the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments. #AdamSmith — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 18, 2026
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The most hopeful and therefore romantic thing we can ever do in relationships is sometimes to declare that we haven't yet learnt how to love--but, with a little help, are keen to learn one day. #TheSchoolOfLife

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The most hopeful and therefore romantic thing we can ever do in relationships is sometimes to declare that we haven't yet learnt how to love--but, with a little help, are keen to learn one day. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 14, 2026
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In modern affluent societies it is customary to take a shower and change your clothes every day. Medieval peasants went without washing for months on end, and hardly ever changed their clothes. #YuvalNoahHarari

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In modern affluent societies it is customary to take a shower and change your clothes every day. Medieval peasants went without washing for months on end, and hardly ever changed their clothes. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 14, 2026
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Voluntary activities [are what] you choose to do, such as meditation, exercise, learning a new skill, or taking a vacation. Because such activities must be chosen, and because most of them take effort and attention, they can't just disappear from your awareness #JonathanHaidt

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Voluntary activities [are what] you choose to do, such as meditation, exercise, learning a new skill, or taking a vacation. Because such activities must be chosen, and because most of them take effort and attention, they can't just disappear from your awareness #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 13, 2026
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If the burden of working for little reward in an isolating society stripped of any overriding purpose can be recognised to have an effect on individuals, how could it not also be said to have an effect on society as a whole? #DouglasMurray

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If the burden of working for little reward in an isolating society stripped of any overriding purpose can be recognised to have an effect on individuals, how could it not also be said to have an effect on society as a whole? #DouglasMurray — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 12, 2026
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If I choosing to judge myself based on my ability to have open and accepting friendships, that means I rejecting trashing my friends behind their backs. These are all healthy decisions, yet they require rejection at every turn. #MarkManson

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If I choosing to judge myself based on my ability to have open and accepting friendships, that means I rejecting trashing my friends behind their backs. These are all healthy decisions, yet they require rejection at every turn. #MarkManson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 11, 2026
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[Results Only Work Environment] meant to abolish the eight-hour workday by letting you work whenever from wherever [but if] you could be getting results at the office, in your car, at the store, at home after dinner--aren't those all then work environments? #JennyOdell

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[Results Only Work Environment] meant to abolish the eight-hour workday by letting you work whenever from wherever [but if] you could be getting results at the office, in your car, at the store, at home after dinner--aren't those all then work environments? #JennyOdell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 7, 2026
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Whether heavy or fight, wet or dry, fast or slow, everything had its own nature already within it, which could not be violated without causing difficulties. When abstract and arbitrary rules were imposed from the outside, struggle was inevitable. #BenjaminHoff

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Whether heavy or fight, wet or dry, fast or slow, everything had its own nature already within it, which could not be violated without causing difficulties. When abstract and arbitrary rules were imposed from the outside, struggle was inevitable. #BenjaminHoff — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 7, 2026
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Recent experiments by Carsten De Dreu and colleagues show that intranasal administration of oxytocin makes men more cooperative with in-group members, but not out-group members, especially when fear of out-group members is high. #JoshuaGreene

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Recent experiments by Carsten De Dreu and colleagues show that intranasal administration of oxytocin makes men more cooperative with in-group members, but not out-group members, especially when fear of out-group members is high. #JoshuaGreene — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 6, 2026
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When we behave in ways that conflict with our judgment of what is appropriate, we lose face in our own eyes. #NathanielBranden

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When we behave in ways that conflict with our judgment of what is appropriate, we lose face in our own eyes. #NathanielBranden — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 5, 2026
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One great lesson that we can learn from its systematic absence in the work of the grand theorists is that every self-conscious thinker must at all times be aware of--and hence be able to control--the levels of abstraction on which he is working. #CWrightMills

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One great lesson that we can learn from its systematic absence in the work of the grand theorists is that every self-conscious thinker must at all times be aware of--and hence be able to control--the levels of abstraction on which he is working. #CWrightMills — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 4, 2026
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Adam Smith called it the paradox of value: when an important good becomes plentiful, it costs far less than what people are willing to pay for it. The difference is called consumer surplus, and the explosion of this surplus over time is impossible to tabulate. #StevenPinker

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Adam Smith called it the paradox of value: when an important good becomes plentiful, it costs far less than what people are willing to pay for it. The difference is called consumer surplus, and the explosion of this surplus over time is impossible to tabulate. #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jun 2, 2026
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Would you rather be a highly productive but dissatisfied Singaporean, or a less productive but satisfied Costa Rican? #YuvalNoahHarari

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Would you rather be a highly productive but dissatisfied Singaporean, or a less productive but satisfied Costa Rican? #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 31, 2026
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It is intoxicating in the first six months of love to pledge ourselves for the rest of our lives. It is also brave and deeply caring to accept, at least quietly to oneself, that this may prove untenable #DerrenBrown

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It is intoxicating in the first six months of love to pledge ourselves for the rest of our lives. It is also brave and deeply caring to accept, at least quietly to oneself, that this may prove untenable #DerrenBrown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 31, 2026
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In 1865 English chemist John Newlands discovered that when the chemical elements are arranged according to atomic weight, those with similar properties occur at every eighth element, like notes of music. This discovery became known as the Law of Octaves... #WillBuckingham

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In 1865 English chemist John Newlands discovered that when the chemical elements are arranged according to atomic weight, those with similar properties occur at every eighth element, like notes of music. This discovery became known as the Law of Octaves... #WillBuckingham — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 30, 2026
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Good fortune or bad, you will always return to your happiness setpoint--your brain's default level of happiness--which was determined largely by your genes. #JonathanHaidt

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Good fortune or bad, you will always return to your happiness setpoint--your brain's default level of happiness--which was determined largely by your genes. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 29, 2026
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[On humanism] Whether it is framed as the goal of providing the greatest happiness for the greatest number or as a categorical imperative to treat people as ends rather than means, it was the universal capacity of a person to suffer and flourish #StevenPinker

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[On humanism] Whether it is framed as the goal of providing the greatest happiness for the greatest number or as a categorical imperative to treat people as ends rather than means, it was the universal capacity of a person to suffer and flourish #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 28, 2026
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Campbell suggested, 'What will they think of me?' must be put aside for bliss. We begin to feel this bliss when messages previously experienced as critical or blaming begin to be seen for the gifts they are: opportunities to give to people who are in pain. #MarshallRosenberg

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Campbell suggested, 'What will they think of me?' must be put aside for bliss. We begin to feel this bliss when messages previously experienced as critical or blaming begin to be seen for the gifts they are: opportunities to give to people who are in pain. #MarshallRosenberg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 24, 2026
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The Greeks understood this relationship between man and the machinations of the universe. Their tragedies taught us that we need to learn raw humility in the fickle face of fate. #DerrenBrown

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The Greeks understood this relationship between man and the machinations of the universe. Their tragedies taught us that we need to learn raw humility in the fickle face of fate. #DerrenBrown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 24, 2026
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Moderns aren't only more in love with success, they are far more likely to kill themselves when they fail. #TheSchoolOfLife

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Moderns aren't only more in love with success, they are far more likely to kill themselves when they fail. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 23, 2026
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Postmodernism has [...] either become or given rise to one of the least tolerant and most authoritarian ideologies that the world has had to deal with since the widespread decline of communism and the collapses of white supremacy and colonialism. #HelenPluckrose

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Postmodernism has [...] either become or given rise to one of the least tolerant and most authoritarian ideologies that the world has had to deal with since the widespread decline of communism and the collapses of white supremacy and colonialism. #HelenPluckrose — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 22, 2026
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You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both. #RalphWaldoEmerson

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You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both. #RalphWaldoEmerson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 21, 2026
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This exposure [through travelling] to different cultural values and metrics then forces you to reexamine what seems obvious in your own life and to consider that perhaps it's not necessarily the best way to live. #MarkManson

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This exposure [through travelling] to different cultural values and metrics then forces you to reexamine what seems obvious in your own life and to consider that perhaps it's not necessarily the best way to live. #MarkManson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 17, 2026
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A tragic view of modernity in which this is impossible: industrial society, powered by flaming carbon, contains the fuel of its own destruction. But the tragic view is incorrect. Ausubel notes that the modern world has been progressively decarbonizing. #StevenPinker

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A tragic view of modernity in which this is impossible: industrial society, powered by flaming carbon, contains the fuel of its own destruction. But the tragic view is incorrect. Ausubel notes that the modern world has been progressively decarbonizing. #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 17, 2026
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LABELING: Assigning global negative traits to yourself or others (often in the service of dichotomous thinking). I'm undesirable, or He's a rotten person. #JonathanHaidt

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LABELING: Assigning global negative traits to yourself or others (often in the service of dichotomous thinking). I'm undesirable, or He's a rotten person. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 16, 2026
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Lack of love from parents often motivates their children to go searching for love in other relationships. This search is often misguided and leads to further disappointment. #GaryChapman

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Lack of love from parents often motivates their children to go searching for love in other relationships. This search is often misguided and leads to further disappointment. #GaryChapman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 15, 2026
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It is not acceptable for a scholar to say, You have shown me convincing evidence that my claim is wrong, but I still feel that my claim is right, so I'm sticking with it. When scholars cannot rebut or reconcile disconfirming evidence, they must drop their claims #JonathanHaidt

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It is not acceptable for a scholar to say, You have shown me convincing evidence that my claim is wrong, but I still feel that my claim is right, so I'm sticking with it. When scholars cannot rebut or reconcile disconfirming evidence, they must drop their claims #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 14, 2026
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I will participate, but not as asked #JennyOdell

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I will participate, but not as asked #JennyOdell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 10, 2026
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Stay away from it (cryptocurrency). It's a mirage, basically... The idea that it has some huge intrinsic value is a joke in my view. #WarrenBuffett

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Stay away from it (cryptocurrency). It's a mirage, basically... The idea that it has some huge intrinsic value is a joke in my view. #WarrenBuffett — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 10, 2026
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But the low rungs span the whole political spectrum, and the vortex affects the whole country. I didn't understand at the time that the same ecosystem changes that had disabled the high-rung immune system on the right could do the very same thing much closer to home. #TimUrban

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But the low rungs span the whole political spectrum, and the vortex affects the whole country. I didn't understand at the time that the same ecosystem changes that had disabled the high-rung immune system on the right could do the very same thing much closer to home. #TimUrban — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 9, 2026
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Savvy institution designers must therefore identify both the surface goals to which people give lip service and the hidden goals that people are also trying to achieve. Designers can then search for arrangements that actually achieve [the deeper and surface goals.] #RobinHanson

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Savvy institution designers must therefore identify both the surface goals to which people give lip service and the hidden goals that people are also trying to achieve. Designers can then search for arrangements that actually achieve [the deeper and surface goals.] #RobinHanson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 8, 2026
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A breakdown is not merely a random piece of madness or malfunction; it is a very real--albeit very inarticulate--bid for health and self-knowledge. #TheSchoolOfLife

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A breakdown is not merely a random piece of madness or malfunction; it is a very real--albeit very inarticulate--bid for health and self-knowledge. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 7, 2026
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What he ought to do for the individual is to turn personal troubles and concerns into social issues and problems open to reason--his aim is to help the individual become a self-educating man, who only then would be reasonable and free. #CWrightMills

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What he ought to do for the individual is to turn personal troubles and concerns into social issues and problems open to reason--his aim is to help the individual become a self-educating man, who only then would be reasonable and free. #CWrightMills — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 5, 2026
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I did not know I was to spend the rest of my life getting Singapore not just to work but to prosper and flourish. #LeeKuanYew

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I did not know I was to spend the rest of my life getting Singapore not just to work but to prosper and flourish. #LeeKuanYew — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 3, 2026
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We positively require a set of constraining conventions that artificially induce better ways of dealing with other people. Politeness is not mere decoration. It is directed at dealing with a major human problem: we need manners to restrain the beast inside. #TheSchoolOfLife

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We positively require a set of constraining conventions that artificially induce better ways of dealing with other people. Politeness is not mere decoration. It is directed at dealing with a major human problem: we need manners to restrain the beast inside. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 3, 2026
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The stars matter in our lives because they offer a consoling encounter with grandeur, because they invite a helpful perspective on the brevity and littleness of human existence. #TheSchoolOfLife

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The stars matter in our lives because they offer a consoling encounter with grandeur, because they invite a helpful perspective on the brevity and littleness of human existence. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 2, 2026
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Many high achievers, for all their accomplishments, cannot trust in a basic idea: that it might be acceptable to be themselves, outside of any acclaim, notice or distinction. Simply being is not enough; their right to exist can only be assured by constant doing. #TheSchoolOfLife

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Many high achievers, for all their accomplishments, cannot trust in a basic idea: that it might be acceptable to be themselves, outside of any acclaim, notice or distinction. Simply being is not enough; their right to exist can only be assured by constant doing. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 1, 2026
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[China] entered into a Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance with North Korea in 1961, containing a clause on mutual defense against outside attack that is still in force at this writing. But that was more in the nature of the tributary relationship #HenryKis…

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[China] entered into a Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance with North Korea in 1961, containing a clause on mutual defense against outside attack that is still in force at this writing. But that was more in the nature of the tributary relationship #HenryKis… — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 30, 2026
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If majority populations are made to feel that almost everything in their culture and history is under not just criticism but attack, then rather than racial politics diminishing in the years ahead, it is possible that they may receive their largest boost. #DouglasMurray

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If majority populations are made to feel that almost everything in their culture and history is under not just criticism but attack, then rather than racial politics diminishing in the years ahead, it is possible that they may receive their largest boost. #DouglasMurray — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 26, 2026
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The charmed circle illustrates the existence of a hierarchy of sex acts. Inside the charmed circle is everything that is socially acceptable, which traditionally means monogamous, married, vanilla, heterosexual sex in private. #AngelaChen

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The charmed circle illustrates the existence of a hierarchy of sex acts. Inside the charmed circle is everything that is socially acceptable, which traditionally means monogamous, married, vanilla, heterosexual sex in private. #AngelaChen — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 26, 2026
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Aggressive and hard-charging women violate unwritten rules about acceptable social conduct. Men are continually applauded for being ambitious and powerful and successful, but women who display these same traits often pay a social penalty. #SherylSandberg

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Aggressive and hard-charging women violate unwritten rules about acceptable social conduct. Men are continually applauded for being ambitious and powerful and successful, but women who display these same traits often pay a social penalty. #SherylSandberg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 25, 2026
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In any culture, subculture, or family in which belief is valued above thought, and self-surrender is valued above self-expression, and conformity is valued above integrity, those who preserve their self-esteem are likely to be heroic exceptions. #NathanielBranden

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In any culture, subculture, or family in which belief is valued above thought, and self-surrender is valued above self-expression, and conformity is valued above integrity, those who preserve their self-esteem are likely to be heroic exceptions. #NathanielBranden — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 24, 2026
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You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven. #YuvalNoahHarari

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You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 23, 2026
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When your beloved delights you you respond with affection [..] But when your beloved disappoints you, can you still respond with affection? [...] This affection is genuine. It does not depend on the behavior of others. It lies within you at all times. #WilliamMartin

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When your beloved delights you you respond with affection [..] But when your beloved disappoints you, can you still respond with affection? [...] This affection is genuine. It does not depend on the behavior of others. It lies within you at all times. #WilliamMartin — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 21, 2026
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Nationalism is not to be confused with patriotism. #GeorgeOrwell

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Nationalism is not to be confused with patriotism. #GeorgeOrwell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 19, 2026
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One of the greatest sources of difficulty in relationships stems paradoxically from the strength of a person's wish not be 'difficult' #TheSchoolOfLife

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One of the greatest sources of difficulty in relationships stems paradoxically from the strength of a person's wish not be 'difficult' #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 19, 2026
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We should take care not to dress up our base deficiencies as godly virtues. #TheSchoolOfLife

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We should take care not to dress up our base deficiencies as godly virtues. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 18, 2026
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simple emblem of a story will do for this sort of narrative, [like] a war medal bestowed on a soldier doesn't have to be pure gold. It's enough that the medal be backed up by a shared recognition that this is a medal, no matter that it's a cheap tin trinket. #HarukiMurakami

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simple emblem of a story will do for this sort of narrative, [like] a war medal bestowed on a soldier doesn't have to be pure gold. It's enough that the medal be backed up by a shared recognition that this is a medal, no matter that it's a cheap tin trinket. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 17, 2026
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...there is enough evidence to support placing time limits on device use (perhaps two hours a day for adolescents, less for younger kids) while limiting or prohibiting the use of platforms that amplify social comparison rather than social connection. #JonathanHaidt

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...there is enough evidence to support placing time limits on device use (perhaps two hours a day for adolescents, less for younger kids) while limiting or prohibiting the use of platforms that amplify social comparison rather than social connection. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 16, 2026
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Show us examples of powerful, enviable women who are openly indifferent to sex, secure in that decision, and not constantly challenged by others... Stop assuming that sexual behavior must be linked to political belief or that horniness is an interesting personality... #AngelaChen

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Show us examples of powerful, enviable women who are openly indifferent to sex, secure in that decision, and not constantly challenged by others... Stop assuming that sexual behavior must be linked to political belief or that horniness is an interesting personality... #AngelaChen — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 14, 2026
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A Dutch person's feedback can indeed be both brutally honest yet delightfully polite--but only if the recipient is Dutch. If you happen to come from one of the 195 or so societies in the world... politeness is downright insulting, offensive, and yes, rude. #ErinMeyer

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A Dutch person's feedback can indeed be both brutally honest yet delightfully polite--but only if the recipient is Dutch. If you happen to come from one of the 195 or so societies in the world... politeness is downright insulting, offensive, and yes, rude. #ErinMeyer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 12, 2026
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People I knew who finished their undergraduate degrees or trade programs were better for it. Not 'good,' necessarily... But far better than those who withdrew and drifted... The sacrifices thereby entailed matured those who endured and made them better people. #JordanPeterson

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People I knew who finished their undergraduate degrees or trade programs were better for it. Not 'good,' necessarily... But far better than those who withdrew and drifted... The sacrifices thereby entailed matured those who endured and made them better people. #JordanPeterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 12, 2026
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But down through the centuries, man has developed a mind that separates him from the world of reality, the world of natural laws. This mind tries too hard, wears itself out, and ends up weak and sloppy. Such a mind, even if of high intelligence, is inefficient. #BenjaminHoff

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But down through the centuries, man has developed a mind that separates him from the world of reality, the world of natural laws. This mind tries too hard, wears itself out, and ends up weak and sloppy. Such a mind, even if of high intelligence, is inefficient. #BenjaminHoff — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 11, 2026
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When people's judgments deviate from a normative model, as they so often do, we have a puzzle to solve. #StevenPinker

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When people's judgments deviate from a normative model, as they so often do, we have a puzzle to solve. #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 10, 2026
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Other people's thoughts and feelings have to be communicated to you somehow, but your own are so immediate, urgent, real. #DavidBrooks

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Other people's thoughts and feelings have to be communicated to you somehow, but your own are so immediate, urgent, real. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 9, 2026
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The cliche of the 'average immigrant' being an economic boon for the country only works when such exceptions are made to appear as though they are the rule. #DouglasMurray

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The cliche of the 'average immigrant' being an economic boon for the country only works when such exceptions are made to appear as though they are the rule. #DouglasMurray — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 7, 2026
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If you overly protect your children they will fear failure and avoid pain. But failure and pain are twin teachers of important lessons. Unless your children fully experience both how will they know they have nothing to fear? #WilliamMartin

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If you overly protect your children they will fear failure and avoid pain. But failure and pain are twin teachers of important lessons. Unless your children fully experience both how will they know they have nothing to fear? #WilliamMartin — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 5, 2026
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The evidence of priming studies suggests that reminding people of their mortality increases the appeal of authoritarian ideas, which may become reassuring in the context of the terror of death. #DanielKahneman

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The evidence of priming studies suggests that reminding people of their mortality increases the appeal of authoritarian ideas, which may become reassuring in the context of the terror of death. #DanielKahneman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 5, 2026
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At the heart of the pain created by sexual rejection is our habit of interpreting it as a moral judgement, when it might more accurately be categorized as a mere accident. We can start to break free from this torture... #AlaindeBotton

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At the heart of the pain created by sexual rejection is our habit of interpreting it as a moral judgement, when it might more accurately be categorized as a mere accident. We can start to break free from this torture... #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 4, 2026
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[Good listeners] hover as the other speaks; they offer encouraging remarks; they make gentle positive gestures: a sigh of sympathy, a nod of encouragement, a strategic 'hmm' of interest. All the time, they are egging the other to go deeper into issues. #TheSchoolOfLife

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[Good listeners] hover as the other speaks; they offer encouraging remarks; they make gentle positive gestures: a sigh of sympathy, a nod of encouragement, a strategic 'hmm' of interest. All the time, they are egging the other to go deeper into issues. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 3, 2026
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Remember: things can be bad, and getting better. #HansRosling

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Remember: things can be bad, and getting better. #HansRosling — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 2, 2026
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Where there is injustice, and where it is under your control to make a difference, use your abilities to create change. But don't ultimately emotionally commit yourself to the outcome. That's out of your hands. #DerrenBrown

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Where there is injustice, and where it is under your control to make a difference, use your abilities to create change. But don't ultimately emotionally commit yourself to the outcome. That's out of your hands. #DerrenBrown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 31, 2026
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First [rule of thumb on avoiding brainwashing], if you want reliable information--pay good money for it. If you get your news for free, you might well be the product. #YuvalNoahHarari

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First [rule of thumb on avoiding brainwashing], if you want reliable information--pay good money for it. If you get your news for free, you might well be the product. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 29, 2026
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Characters who might be plausible as mere acquaintances or office colleagues can reveal peculiarities normally concealed in ordinary social life. We're not only unlucky if our dates initiate us like this. We should accept [many fascinating things can go wrong...] #TheSchoolOfLife

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Characters who might be plausible as mere acquaintances or office colleagues can reveal peculiarities normally concealed in ordinary social life. We're not only unlucky if our dates initiate us like this. We should accept [many fascinating things can go wrong...] #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 29, 2026
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Social conservatives tend to be lower on openness to experience and higher on conscientiousness--they prefer things to be orderly and predictable... more likely to show up on time for meetings, and they are more likely to see the value of traditional arrangements. #JonathanHaidt

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Social conservatives tend to be lower on openness to experience and higher on conscientiousness--they prefer things to be orderly and predictable... more likely to show up on time for meetings, and they are more likely to see the value of traditional arrangements. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 28, 2026
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Achievements are not attributed, as in past societies, to luck or providence--a reflection of modern societies' faith in individual willpower. #AlaindeBotton

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Achievements are not attributed, as in past societies, to luck or providence--a reflection of modern societies' faith in individual willpower. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 27, 2026
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The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. #HenryKissinger

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The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. #HenryKissinger — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 26, 2026
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To modify a habit, you must decide to change it. You must consciously accept the hard work of identifying the cues and rewards that drive the habits' routines, and find alternatives. #CharlesDuhigg

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To modify a habit, you must decide to change it. You must consciously accept the hard work of identifying the cues and rewards that drive the habits' routines, and find alternatives. #CharlesDuhigg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 24, 2026
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O man, of whatever country you are, and whatever your opinions may be, behold your history, such as I have thought to read it, not in books written by your fellow-creatures, who are liars, but in nature, which never lies. All that comes from her will be true #JeanJacquesRousseau

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O man, of whatever country you are, and whatever your opinions may be, behold your history, such as I have thought to read it, not in books written by your fellow-creatures, who are liars, but in nature, which never lies. All that comes from her will be true #JeanJacquesRousseau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 22, 2026
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The in-love experience does not focus on our own growth or on the growth and development of the other person. Rather, it gives us the sense that we have arrived and that we do not need further growth. #GaryChapman

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The in-love experience does not focus on our own growth or on the growth and development of the other person. Rather, it gives us the sense that we have arrived and that we do not need further growth. #GaryChapman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 22, 2026
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[The second balance of wisdom] corresponds roughly to the famous 'serenity prayer': 'God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.' ... If you live this prayer... you are wise. #JonathanHa…

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[The second balance of wisdom] corresponds roughly to the famous 'serenity prayer': 'God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.' ... If you live this prayer... you are wise. #JonathanHa… — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 21, 2026
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Gray notes that the tendency of kids to introduce danger and risk into outdoor free play, such as when they climb walls and trees, or skateboard down staircases and railings: They seem to be dosing themselves with moderate degrees of fear... #JonathanHaidt

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Gray notes that the tendency of kids to introduce danger and risk into outdoor free play, such as when they climb walls and trees, or skateboard down staircases and railings: They seem to be dosing themselves with moderate degrees of fear... #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 20, 2026
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Mixed neighborhoods create public simultaneous thinking, many perspectives converging on the same moment at the same time, in front of each other. Many languages, many cultures, many racial and class experiences take place on the same block, in the same buildings. #SarahSchulman

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Mixed neighborhoods create public simultaneous thinking, many perspectives converging on the same moment at the same time, in front of each other. Many languages, many cultures, many racial and class experiences take place on the same block, in the same buildings. #SarahSchulman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 19, 2026
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When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wanders a little from the truth. #AntoinedeSaintExupery

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When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wanders a little from the truth. #AntoinedeSaintExupery — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 17, 2026
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Uncertainty is where things happen. #OliverBurkeman

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Uncertainty is where things happen. #OliverBurkeman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 15, 2026
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[Vassar] study revealed that virtually all such students with professional ambitions plan to marry, but marriage is for them an activity in which they will voluntarily choose to participate, rather than something that is necessary for any sense of personal identity. #BettyFriedan

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[Vassar] study revealed that virtually all such students with professional ambitions plan to marry, but marriage is for them an activity in which they will voluntarily choose to participate, rather than something that is necessary for any sense of personal identity. #BettyFriedan — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 15, 2026
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I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but like everybody else, it must be in my own way. #JaneAusten

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I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but like everybody else, it must be in my own way. #JaneAusten — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 14, 2026
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Reciprocity is a deep instinct; it is the basic currency of social life. #JonathanHaidt

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Reciprocity is a deep instinct; it is the basic currency of social life. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 13, 2026
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I also came to understand how having so much history to study has affected the Chinese way of thinking, which is very different from the American way of thinking, which is much more focused on what is happening now. #RayDalio

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I also came to understand how having so much history to study has affected the Chinese way of thinking, which is very different from the American way of thinking, which is much more focused on what is happening now. #RayDalio — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 12, 2026
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The world is everything that is the case. #LudwigWittgenstein

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The world is everything that is the case. #LudwigWittgenstein — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 10, 2026
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I think playing cricket taught me more about working in teams and leadership that has stayed with me throughout my career. #SatyaNadella

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I think playing cricket taught me more about working in teams and leadership that has stayed with me throughout my career. #SatyaNadella — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 8, 2026
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What Il see depends on how I look, and for how long. #JennyOdell

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What Il see depends on how I look, and for how long. #JennyOdell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 8, 2026
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We are at this point in history so deeply fixated on the idea that poverty must always be involuntary and therefore the result of a lack of talent and indigence, we can't even imagine that it might be the result of an intelligent and skilled person's free choice #TheSchoolOfLife

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We are at this point in history so deeply fixated on the idea that poverty must always be involuntary and therefore the result of a lack of talent and indigence, we can't even imagine that it might be the result of an intelligent and skilled person's free choice #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 7, 2026
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The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity. #BettyFriedan

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The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity. #BettyFriedan — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 6, 2026
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...it's so important to have intellectual and ideological diversity within any group or institution whose goal is to find truth (such as an intelligence agency or a community of scientists) or to produce good public policy (such as a legislature or advisory board). #JonathanHaidt

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...it's so important to have intellectual and ideological diversity within any group or institution whose goal is to find truth (such as an intelligence agency or a community of scientists) or to produce good public policy (such as a legislature or advisory board). #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 5, 2026
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From a scientific perspective the truly revolutionary character of the Industrial Revolution was the dramatic change from an open system where energy is supplied externally by the sun to a closed system where energy is supplied internally by fossil fuel. #GeoffreyWest

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From a scientific perspective the truly revolutionary character of the Industrial Revolution was the dramatic change from an open system where energy is supplied externally by the sun to a closed system where energy is supplied internally by fossil fuel. #GeoffreyWest — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 3, 2026
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As talented as we are, mind reading is not a core human competency. #JulieZhuo

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As talented as we are, mind reading is not a core human competency. #JulieZhuo — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 1, 2026
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We need to be alone because life among other people unfolds too quickly. #AlaindeBotton

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We need to be alone because life among other people unfolds too quickly. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Mar 1, 2026
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Your role as a manager is not to do the work yourself, even if you are the best at it, because that will only take you so far. Your role is to improve the purpose, people, and process of your team to get as high a multiplier effect on your collective outcome as you can #JulieZhuo

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Your role as a manager is not to do the work yourself, even if you are the best at it, because that will only take you so far. Your role is to improve the purpose, people, and process of your team to get as high a multiplier effect on your collective outcome as you can #JulieZhuo — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 28, 2026
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Effective thinking isn't about 'working hard' in any brute or rote sense; it is about learning to spot, defend, nurture and grow our fleeting, tentative periods of insight. #TheSchoolOfLife

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Effective thinking isn't about 'working hard' in any brute or rote sense; it is about learning to spot, defend, nurture and grow our fleeting, tentative periods of insight. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 27, 2026
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For the love of gain would reconcile the weaker to the dominion of the stronger, and the possession of capital enabled the more powerful to reduce the smaller towns to subjection. #Thucydides

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For the love of gain would reconcile the weaker to the dominion of the stronger, and the possession of capital enabled the more powerful to reduce the smaller towns to subjection. #Thucydides — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 26, 2026
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Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people. #NicholasDKristof

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Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people. #NicholasDKristof — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 24, 2026
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Marginalization is a fundamental trauma. This is why I believe that a truly trauma-informed system is an anti-racist system. The destructive effects of racial marginalizing are pervasive and severe. #BruceDPerry

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Marginalization is a fundamental trauma. This is why I believe that a truly trauma-informed system is an anti-racist system. The destructive effects of racial marginalizing are pervasive and severe. #BruceDPerry — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 22, 2026
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Humility is the awareness that there's a lot you don't know and that a lot of what you think you know is distorted or wrong. #DavidBrooks

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Humility is the awareness that there's a lot you don't know and that a lot of what you think you know is distorted or wrong. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 22, 2026
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For every dollar and every minute we invest in improving artificial intelligence, it would be wise to invest a dollar and a minute in advancing human consciousness. #YuvalNoahHarari

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For every dollar and every minute we invest in improving artificial intelligence, it would be wise to invest a dollar and a minute in advancing human consciousness. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 21, 2026
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Lives can be meaningful even when they involve a lot of failure and humiliation. #TheSchoolOfLife

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Lives can be meaningful even when they involve a lot of failure and humiliation. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 20, 2026
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There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom lies in wait for him at every corner. Nay more; it is evil which generally has the upper hand, and folly that makes the most noise. Fate is cruel #Schopenhauer

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There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom lies in wait for him at every corner. Nay more; it is evil which generally has the upper hand, and folly that makes the most noise. Fate is cruel #Schopenhauer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 19, 2026
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Our secular world is lacking in the sorts of rituals that might put us gently in our place. #AlaindeBotton

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Our secular world is lacking in the sorts of rituals that might put us gently in our place. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 19, 2026
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But, if the follies of youth made me for a while forget his wise lessons, I have at length the happiness to be conscious that, whatever propensity one may have to vice, it is not easy for an education, with which love has mingled, to be entirely thrown away. #JeanJacquesRousseau

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But, if the follies of youth made me for a while forget his wise lessons, I have at length the happiness to be conscious that, whatever propensity one may have to vice, it is not easy for an education, with which love has mingled, to be entirely thrown away. #JeanJacquesRousseau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 19, 2026
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The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor favor to those of skill, but time and chance happen to them all. An essential part of rationality is dealing with randomness in our lives and uncertainty in our knowledge. #StevenPinker

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The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor favor to those of skill, but time and chance happen to them all. An essential part of rationality is dealing with randomness in our lives and uncertainty in our knowledge. #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 19, 2026
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There is a helplessness in the character of extreme humanity which more than any thing interests our pity. There is nothing in itself which renders it either ungraceful or disagreeable. We only regret that it is unfit for the world, because the world is unworthy of it #AdamSmith

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There is a helplessness in the character of extreme humanity which more than any thing interests our pity. There is nothing in itself which renders it either ungraceful or disagreeable. We only regret that it is unfit for the world, because the world is unworthy of it #AdamSmith — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 18, 2026
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If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week. #CharlesDarwin

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If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week. #CharlesDarwin — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 18, 2026
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I think often about how much time and energy we use thinking up things to say that would go over well with a context-collapsed crowd... This is its own form of research, and when I do it, it feels not only pathetic but like a waste of energy. #JennyOdell

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I think often about how much time and energy we use thinking up things to say that would go over well with a context-collapsed crowd... This is its own form of research, and when I do it, it feels not only pathetic but like a waste of energy. #JennyOdell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 18, 2026
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The big question facing humans isn't what is the meaning of life? but rather how do we stop suffering? #YuvalNoahHarari

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The big question facing humans isn't what is the meaning of life? but rather how do we stop suffering? #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 18, 2026
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Just as when two clashing musical notes played together force a piece of music forward, so discord in our thoughts, ideas and values compel us to think, re-evaluate and criticise. Consistency is the playground of dull minds. #YuvalNoahHarari

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Just as when two clashing musical notes played together force a piece of music forward, so discord in our thoughts, ideas and values compel us to think, re-evaluate and criticise. Consistency is the playground of dull minds. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 18, 2026
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The noise of fast and shallow communications makes it harder to hear the quieter sounds that emanate from the depths. #DavidBrooks

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The noise of fast and shallow communications makes it harder to hear the quieter sounds that emanate from the depths. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 18, 2026
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Find the most believable people possible who disagree with you and try to understand their reasoning. Having open-minded conversations with believable people who disagree with you is the quickest way to get an education and to increase your probability of being right. #RayDalio

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Find the most believable people possible who disagree with you and try to understand their reasoning. Having open-minded conversations with believable people who disagree with you is the quickest way to get an education and to increase your probability of being right. #RayDalio — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 17, 2026
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...the savage lives within himself, whereas the citizen, constantly beside himself, knows only how to live in the opinion of others; insomuch that it is, if I may say so, merely from their judgment that he derives the consciousness of his own existence. #JeanJacquesRousseau

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...the savage lives within himself, whereas the citizen, constantly beside himself, knows only how to live in the opinion of others; insomuch that it is, if I may say so, merely from their judgment that he derives the consciousness of his own existence. #JeanJacquesRousseau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 17, 2026
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...there are costs to averting our eyes from the realities. We put off dealing with the adaptations that we need to make as a society. And we blind ourselves to the opportunities that exist to change the individual experience of aging for the better. #AtulGawande

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...there are costs to averting our eyes from the realities. We put off dealing with the adaptations that we need to make as a society. And we blind ourselves to the opportunities that exist to change the individual experience of aging for the better. #AtulGawande — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 17, 2026
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[Not no sex as] then we are oppressed or possibly repressed, and we're either not being our true authentic selves, or we havent discovered this crucial side of ourselves that is our sexuality in relation to other people, or we haven't grown up properly or awakened yet #AngelaChen

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[Not no sex as] then we are oppressed or possibly repressed, and we're either not being our true authentic selves, or we havent discovered this crucial side of ourselves that is our sexuality in relation to other people, or we haven't grown up properly or awakened yet #AngelaChen — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 17, 2026
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Faith, if it is ever right about anything, is right by accident. #SamHarris

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Faith, if it is ever right about anything, is right by accident. #SamHarris — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 17, 2026
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What's the point of this things condemning things? You a worthless man about to die... how do you know I'm a worthless tree? #ZhuangZhou

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What's the point of this things condemning things? You a worthless man about to die... how do you know I'm a worthless tree? #ZhuangZhou — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 17, 2026
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But this principle [of separation between church and state] is based on a more profound philosophical idea -- that no matter how certain you may be that you are in possession of the truth, you have no right to impose your belief on society as a whole. #HelenPluckrose

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But this principle [of separation between church and state] is based on a more profound philosophical idea -- that no matter how certain you may be that you are in possession of the truth, you have no right to impose your belief on society as a whole. #HelenPluckrose — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 16, 2026
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Faith is a place of mystery, where we find the courage to believe in what we cannot see and the strength to let go of our fear of uncertainty. #BreneBrown

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Faith is a place of mystery, where we find the courage to believe in what we cannot see and the strength to let go of our fear of uncertainty. #BreneBrown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 16, 2026
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Satisfying consumer demand is not valuable in itself; its value depends, case by case, on the moral status of the ends it serves. #MichaelSandel

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Satisfying consumer demand is not valuable in itself; its value depends, case by case, on the moral status of the ends it serves. #MichaelSandel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 16, 2026
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Eating a quart of ice cream in an afternoon or listening to a new CD ten times in a row are good ways to overdose and deaden yourself to future pleasure. #JonathanHaidt

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Eating a quart of ice cream in an afternoon or listening to a new CD ten times in a row are good ways to overdose and deaden yourself to future pleasure. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 16, 2026
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Our propensity to impose meaning and concepts blocks our awareness of the details making up the concept. #NassimNicholasTaleb

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Our propensity to impose meaning and concepts blocks our awareness of the details making up the concept. #NassimNicholasTaleb — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 16, 2026
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We laugh at others and we don't realize that someone will be just as justified in laughing at us on some not too remote day. #NassimNicholasTaleb

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We laugh at others and we don't realize that someone will be just as justified in laughing at us on some not too remote day. #NassimNicholasTaleb — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 15, 2026
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Because most people are more emotional than logical, they tend to overreact to short-term results; they give up and sell low when times are bad and buy too high when times are good. I find this is just as true for relationships as it is for investments. #RayDalio

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Because most people are more emotional than logical, they tend to overreact to short-term results; they give up and sell low when times are bad and buy too high when times are good. I find this is just as true for relationships as it is for investments. #RayDalio — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 15, 2026
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I got a lot out of my bad times, not just because they gave me mistakes to learn from but also because they helped me find out who my real friends were--the friends who would be with me through thick and thin. #RayDalio

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I got a lot out of my bad times, not just because they gave me mistakes to learn from but also because they helped me find out who my real friends were--the friends who would be with me through thick and thin. #RayDalio — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 15, 2026
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We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand. #EricHoffer

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We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand. #EricHoffer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 15, 2026
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If Passion drives, let Reason hold the Reins. #BenjaminFranklin

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If Passion drives, let Reason hold the Reins. #BenjaminFranklin — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 15, 2026
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...the modern idea of productivity is so often a frame for what is actually the destruction of the natural productivity of an ecosystem [...] like the paradox in Zhuang Zhou's story, which more than anything is a joke about how narrow the concept of usefulness is. #JennyOdell

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...the modern idea of productivity is so often a frame for what is actually the destruction of the natural productivity of an ecosystem [...] like the paradox in Zhuang Zhou's story, which more than anything is a joke about how narrow the concept of usefulness is. #JennyOdell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 14, 2026
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The Goldilocks Rule states that humans experience peak motivation when working on tasks that are right on the edge of their current abilities. Not too hard. Not too easy. Just right. #JamesClear

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The Goldilocks Rule states that humans experience peak motivation when working on tasks that are right on the edge of their current abilities. Not too hard. Not too easy. Just right. #JamesClear — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 14, 2026
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Students are treated like candles, which can be extinguished by a puff of wind. The goal of a Socratic education should be to turn them into fires, which thrive on the wind. #JonathanHaidt

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Students are treated like candles, which can be extinguished by a puff of wind. The goal of a Socratic education should be to turn them into fires, which thrive on the wind. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 14, 2026
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Construing populist protest as either malevolent or misdirected absolves governing elites of responsibility for creating the conditions that have eroded the dignity of work and left many feeling disrespected and disempowered. #MichaelSandel

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Construing populist protest as either malevolent or misdirected absolves governing elites of responsibility for creating the conditions that have eroded the dignity of work and left many feeling disrespected and disempowered. #MichaelSandel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 14, 2026
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It is the anticipation of a reward--not the fulfillment of it--that gets us to take action. The greater the anticipation, the greater the dopamine spike. #JamesClear

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It is the anticipation of a reward--not the fulfillment of it--that gets us to take action. The greater the anticipation, the greater the dopamine spike. #JamesClear — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 14, 2026
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In fact, I don't know what a personal brand is other than a reliable, unchanging pattern of snap judgments: like this... and don't like this, ... with little room for ambiguity or contradiction. #JennyOdell

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In fact, I don't know what a personal brand is other than a reliable, unchanging pattern of snap judgments: like this... and don't like this, ... with little room for ambiguity or contradiction. #JennyOdell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 14, 2026
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[The sage] is to Stoicism as Buddha is to Buddhism. Most Buddhists can never hope to become as enlightened as Buddha, but nevertheless, reflecting on Buddha's perfection can help them gain a degree of enlightenment. #WilliamBIrvine

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[The sage] is to Stoicism as Buddha is to Buddhism. Most Buddhists can never hope to become as enlightened as Buddha, but nevertheless, reflecting on Buddha's perfection can help them gain a degree of enlightenment. #WilliamBIrvine — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 13, 2026
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The degeneration of philosophical schools in its turn is the consequence of the mistaken belief that one can philosophize without having been compelled to philosophize by problems outside philosophy. #NassimNicholasTaleb

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The degeneration of philosophical schools in its turn is the consequence of the mistaken belief that one can philosophize without having been compelled to philosophize by problems outside philosophy. #NassimNicholasTaleb — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 13, 2026
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I came across a lot of ads about computers whose main point was that they were going to save you time working. #JennyOdell

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I came across a lot of ads about computers whose main point was that they were going to save you time working. #JennyOdell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 13, 2026
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Our lives are brief, and so it is the quality of our experiences, rather than the extent of our possessions, that matters. #TheSchoolOfLife

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Our lives are brief, and so it is the quality of our experiences, rather than the extent of our possessions, that matters. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 13, 2026
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Sometimes taking time is actually a shortcut. #HarukiMurakami

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Sometimes taking time is actually a shortcut. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 13, 2026
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Yet since we have no idea what the world and the job market will look like in 2050, we don't really know what particular skills people will need. #YuvalNoahHarari

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Yet since we have no idea what the world and the job market will look like in 2050, we don't really know what particular skills people will need. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 13, 2026
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...the ethic of divinity had been central to public discourse in the United States until the time of the World War I, after which it began to fade (except in a few places, such as the American South...) #JonathanHaidt

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...the ethic of divinity had been central to public discourse in the United States until the time of the World War I, after which it began to fade (except in a few places, such as the American South...) #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 12, 2026
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[Grandparents] also grasp that even when things go a bit wrong, children will generally cope well enough. Their sense of danger and their sense of hope have both been made more accurate by experience. History encourages the less panicky sides of ourselves. #TheSchoolOfLife

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[Grandparents] also grasp that even when things go a bit wrong, children will generally cope well enough. Their sense of danger and their sense of hope have both been made more accurate by experience. History encourages the less panicky sides of ourselves. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 12, 2026
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My goal for the future isn't to avoid mistakes, it's for the mistakes I do make to be my own. #TimUrban

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My goal for the future isn't to avoid mistakes, it's for the mistakes I do make to be my own. #TimUrban — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 12, 2026
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[Although people] want to do good deeds, in two studies where we gave them the opportunity to sign up for volunteer work or to help an experimenter pick up a stack of papers she had dropped, we did not find that elevation made people behave much differently. #JonathanHaidt

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[Although people] want to do good deeds, in two studies where we gave them the opportunity to sign up for volunteer work or to help an experimenter pick up a stack of papers she had dropped, we did not find that elevation made people behave much differently. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 12, 2026
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As we try to make sense of the world, we work with our existing knowledge and paradigms. We formulate ideas and then systematically seek out information that confirms those ideas. We dismiss contrary information as exceptions. #StevenNovella

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As we try to make sense of the world, we work with our existing knowledge and paradigms. We formulate ideas and then systematically seek out information that confirms those ideas. We dismiss contrary information as exceptions. #StevenNovella — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 11, 2026
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Even if the contrary opinion is in error, the airing of it may help to remind people of a truth and prevent its slippage into an ignorant dogma which may in time--if unchallenged--itself become lost. (John Stuart Mill) #DouglasMurray

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Even if the contrary opinion is in error, the airing of it may help to remind people of a truth and prevent its slippage into an ignorant dogma which may in time--if unchallenged--itself become lost. (John Stuart Mill) #DouglasMurray — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 11, 2026
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It is one of the unexpected disasters of the modern age that our new unparalleled access to information has come at the price of our capacity to concentrate on anything much. #AlaindeBotton

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It is one of the unexpected disasters of the modern age that our new unparalleled access to information has come at the price of our capacity to concentrate on anything much. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 11, 2026
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There are good things in store. Not because I deserve them. Not because I worked for them. But because they are as much a part of Chaos as destruction and loss. #LuluMiller

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There are good things in store. Not because I deserve them. Not because I worked for them. But because they are as much a part of Chaos as destruction and loss. #LuluMiller — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 11, 2026
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But the threat of some kind of punishment must always be present, or a norm is little more than hot air. Covenants, says Thomas Hobbes, without the sword, are but words. Similarly, you can't have enforcement without creating a de facto norm... #KevinSimler

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But the threat of some kind of punishment must always be present, or a norm is little more than hot air. Covenants, says Thomas Hobbes, without the sword, are but words. Similarly, you can't have enforcement without creating a de facto norm... #KevinSimler — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 11, 2026
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Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will. #AntonioGramsci

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Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will. #AntonioGramsci — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 10, 2026
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As algorithms come to know us so well, authoritarian governments could gain absolute control over their citizens, even more so than in Nazi Germany, and resistance to such regimes might be utterly impossible. #YuvalNoahHarari

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As algorithms come to know us so well, authoritarian governments could gain absolute control over their citizens, even more so than in Nazi Germany, and resistance to such regimes might be utterly impossible. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 10, 2026
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Concern about safety and lawsuits [limited what people could have in] assisted living apartments, mandated what activities they were expected to participate in, and defined ever more stringent move-out conditions that would trigger discharge to a nursing facility. #AtulGawande

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Concern about safety and lawsuits [limited what people could have in] assisted living apartments, mandated what activities they were expected to participate in, and defined ever more stringent move-out conditions that would trigger discharge to a nursing facility. #AtulGawande — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 10, 2026
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[Spiritual] journeys are fundamentally different from religions, because religions seek to cement the worldly order whereas spirituality seeks to escape it. #YuvalNoahHarari

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[Spiritual] journeys are fundamentally different from religions, because religions seek to cement the worldly order whereas spirituality seeks to escape it. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 10, 2026
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Solitude, observation, and simple conviviality should be recognized not only as ends in and of themselves, but inalienable rights belonging to anyone lucky enough to be alive. #JennyOdell

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Solitude, observation, and simple conviviality should be recognized not only as ends in and of themselves, but inalienable rights belonging to anyone lucky enough to be alive. #JennyOdell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 10, 2026
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The traditional American rule for successfully transferring a powerful message to an audience: tell them what you are going to tell them, then tell them, then tell them what you've told them. This is the philosophy of low context communication in a nutshell. #ErinMeyer

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The traditional American rule for successfully transferring a powerful message to an audience: tell them what you are going to tell them, then tell them, then tell them what you've told them. This is the philosophy of low context communication in a nutshell. #ErinMeyer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 9, 2026
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In essence, terrorism is a show. Terrorists stage a terrifying spectacle of violence that captures our imagination and makes us feel as if we are sliding back into medieval chaos. Consequently states often feel obliged to react to the theatre of terrorism... #YuvalNoahHarari

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In essence, terrorism is a show. Terrorists stage a terrifying spectacle of violence that captures our imagination and makes us feel as if we are sliding back into medieval chaos. Consequently states often feel obliged to react to the theatre of terrorism... #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 9, 2026
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Virtue is excellence, something uncommonly great and beautiful, which rises far above what is vulgar and ordinary. #AdamSmith

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Virtue is excellence, something uncommonly great and beautiful, which rises far above what is vulgar and ordinary. #AdamSmith — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 9, 2026
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The popular insurrection that ends in the death or deposition of a Sultan is as lawful an act as those by which he disposed, the day before, of the lives and fortunes of his subjects. #JeanJacquesRousseau

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The popular insurrection that ends in the death or deposition of a Sultan is as lawful an act as those by which he disposed, the day before, of the lives and fortunes of his subjects. #JeanJacquesRousseau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 9, 2026
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Don't do anything that isn't play! #MarshallRosenberg

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Don't do anything that isn't play! #MarshallRosenberg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 9, 2026
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...we now have Social Justice texts [...] sex is not biological and exists on a spectrum, language can be literal violence, denial of gender identity is killing people, the wish to remedy disability and obesity is hateful, and everything needs to be decolonized. #HelenPluckrose

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...we now have Social Justice texts [...] sex is not biological and exists on a spectrum, language can be literal violence, denial of gender identity is killing people, the wish to remedy disability and obesity is hateful, and everything needs to be decolonized. #HelenPluckrose — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 8, 2026
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Nothing is inherently beautiful, sacred, or sexy; human feelings make it so. #YuvalNoahHarari

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Nothing is inherently beautiful, sacred, or sexy; human feelings make it so. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 8, 2026
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A feeling cannot be 'right' or 'wrong'. It is how we act out our feelings that is moral or immoral. #TheSchoolOfLife

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A feeling cannot be 'right' or 'wrong'. It is how we act out our feelings that is moral or immoral. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 8, 2026
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Some see in our rancorous politics a surfeit of moral conviction: too many people believe too deeply, too stridently, in their own convictions and want to impose them on everyone else. #MichaelSandel

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Some see in our rancorous politics a surfeit of moral conviction: too many people believe too deeply, too stridently, in their own convictions and want to impose them on everyone else. #MichaelSandel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 8, 2026
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...the ancients reveal a sophisticated understanding of moral psychology, similar to Franklin's. They all knew that virtue resides in a well-trained elephant. They all knew that training takes daily practice and a great deal of repetition. #JonathanHaidt

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...the ancients reveal a sophisticated understanding of moral psychology, similar to Franklin's. They all knew that virtue resides in a well-trained elephant. They all knew that training takes daily practice and a great deal of repetition. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 8, 2026
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Political reform need not go hand in hand with economic liberalisation. I do not believe that if you are libertarian, full of diverse opinions, full of competing ideas in the market place, full of sound and fury, therefore you will succeed. #LeeKuanYew

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Political reform need not go hand in hand with economic liberalisation. I do not believe that if you are libertarian, full of diverse opinions, full of competing ideas in the market place, full of sound and fury, therefore you will succeed. #LeeKuanYew — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 8, 2026
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A telos crisis is defined by the fact that people in it don't know what their purpose is. When this happens, they become fragile. Nietzsche says that he who has a why to live for can endure any how. If you know what your purpose is, you can handle the setbacks. #DavidBrooks

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A telos crisis is defined by the fact that people in it don't know what their purpose is. When this happens, they become fragile. Nietzsche says that he who has a why to live for can endure any how. If you know what your purpose is, you can handle the setbacks. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 7, 2026
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Consider that two people can hold incompatible beliefs based on the exact same data. Does this mean that there are possible families of explanations and that each of these can be equally perfect and sound? Certainly not. #NassimNicholasTaleb

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Consider that two people can hold incompatible beliefs based on the exact same data. Does this mean that there are possible families of explanations and that each of these can be equally perfect and sound? Certainly not. #NassimNicholasTaleb — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 7, 2026
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The psychologist Linda Skitka finds that when people have strong moral feelings about a controversial issue--when they have a moral mandate--they care much less about procedural fairness in court cases. They want the good guys freed by any means #JonathanHaidt

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The psychologist Linda Skitka finds that when people have strong moral feelings about a controversial issue--when they have a moral mandate--they care much less about procedural fairness in court cases. They want the good guys freed by any means #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 7, 2026
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We are taught [...] to analyze our own fault for making him/her leave. [...] In fact, this is a dangerous slope of gnawing at our own self-worth, and a medicalization of the perfectly natural response to companionship (love), instrumented by psychology. #EvaIllouz

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We are taught [...] to analyze our own fault for making him/her leave. [...] In fact, this is a dangerous slope of gnawing at our own self-worth, and a medicalization of the perfectly natural response to companionship (love), instrumented by psychology. #EvaIllouz — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 7, 2026
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As pschologists will point out, what dooms couples isn't that they argue; it's that they don't know how to make up. #TheSchoolOfLife

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As pschologists will point out, what dooms couples isn't that they argue; it's that they don't know how to make up. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 7, 2026
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No leader gets free rein without accountability--if their decisions turn out to be bad, they are held to task. #JulieZhuo

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No leader gets free rein without accountability--if their decisions turn out to be bad, they are held to task. #JulieZhuo — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 6, 2026
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The discipline imposed on citizens by the bourgeois state makes them into subjects, people who delude themselves that they exert an influence on the course of events. #AntonioGramsci

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The discipline imposed on citizens by the bourgeois state makes them into subjects, people who delude themselves that they exert an influence on the course of events. #AntonioGramsci — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 6, 2026
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[The Russian Handbook] Paging through the book during my flight, I was amused to read: If you are walking through the street without a jacket, little old Russian ladies may stop and chastise you for poor judgment #ErinMeyer

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[The Russian Handbook] Paging through the book during my flight, I was amused to read: If you are walking through the street without a jacket, little old Russian ladies may stop and chastise you for poor judgment #ErinMeyer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 6, 2026
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The core idea of the ethic of divinity is that each person has divinity inside, so the ideal society helps people live in a way consistent with that divinity. What an individual desires is not particularly important... #JonathanHaidt

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The core idea of the ethic of divinity is that each person has divinity inside, so the ideal society helps people live in a way consistent with that divinity. What an individual desires is not particularly important... #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 6, 2026
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Every man is pent up within the limits of his own consciousness, and cannot directly get beyond those limits any more than he can get beyond his own skin #Schopenhauer

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Every man is pent up within the limits of his own consciousness, and cannot directly get beyond those limits any more than he can get beyond his own skin #Schopenhauer — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 6, 2026
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Remember this rule: intuition cannot be trusted in the absence of stable regularities in the environment. #DanielKahneman

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Remember this rule: intuition cannot be trusted in the absence of stable regularities in the environment. #DanielKahneman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 6, 2026
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And everyone, with an eye to raising their price, strives to make themselves more attractive as a friend or associate--by learning new skills, acquiring more and better tools, and polishing their charms. #KevinSimler

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And everyone, with an eye to raising their price, strives to make themselves more attractive as a friend or associate--by learning new skills, acquiring more and better tools, and polishing their charms. #KevinSimler — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 5, 2026
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You aren't a machine with broken parts. You are an animal whose needs are not being met. #JohannHari

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You aren't a machine with broken parts. You are an animal whose needs are not being met. #JohannHari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 5, 2026
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Once we learn to see ourselves as already, and by nature, foolish, it doesn't matter so much if we do one more thing that might look quite stupid. The person we try to kiss could indeed think us ridiculous. But if they did so, it wouldn't be news to us #AlaindeBotton

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Once we learn to see ourselves as already, and by nature, foolish, it doesn't matter so much if we do one more thing that might look quite stupid. The person we try to kiss could indeed think us ridiculous. But if they did so, it wouldn't be news to us #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 5, 2026
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The oftener the choice fell upon old men, the oftener it became necessary to repeat it, and the more the trouble of such repetitions became sensible; electioneering took place; factions arose; the parties contracted ill blood... to relapse into their primitive confusion #Rousseau

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The oftener the choice fell upon old men, the oftener it became necessary to repeat it, and the more the trouble of such repetitions became sensible; electioneering took place; factions arose; the parties contracted ill blood... to relapse into their primitive confusion #Rousseau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 5, 2026
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As people become aware of the finitude of their life, they do not ask for much. They do not seek more riches. They do not seek more power. They ask only to be permitted, insofar as possible, to keep shaping the story of their life in the world #AtulGawande

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As people become aware of the finitude of their life, they do not ask for much. They do not seek more riches. They do not seek more power. They ask only to be permitted, insofar as possible, to keep shaping the story of their life in the world #AtulGawande — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 5, 2026
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Cleverness, after all, has its limitations. Its mechanical judgments and clever remarks tend to prove inaccurate with passing time, because it doesn't look very deeply into things to begin with #BenjaminHoff

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Cleverness, after all, has its limitations. Its mechanical judgments and clever remarks tend to prove inaccurate with passing time, because it doesn't look very deeply into things to begin with #BenjaminHoff — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 4, 2026
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Twenty-six American states passed laws explicitly prohibiting or limiting the employment of married women in various fields. By 1940 more than three-quarters of the school systems in the United States refused to hire married women as teachers. #StephanieCoontz

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Twenty-six American states passed laws explicitly prohibiting or limiting the employment of married women in various fields. By 1940 more than three-quarters of the school systems in the United States refused to hire married women as teachers. #StephanieCoontz — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 4, 2026
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To be human is to have biases. #JonathanHaidt

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To be human is to have biases. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 4, 2026
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Removing the [irrational] fear and the concern with identity or the opinions of others would thrust the person into the not-actually-risky Chef Lab and have them bouncing around all the exhilarating places outside their comfort zone--and their lives would take off. #TimUrban

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Removing the [irrational] fear and the concern with identity or the opinions of others would thrust the person into the not-actually-risky Chef Lab and have them bouncing around all the exhilarating places outside their comfort zone--and their lives would take off. #TimUrban — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 4, 2026
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