We need to be alone because life among other people unfolds too quickly. #AlaindeBotton
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
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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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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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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Lives can be meaningful even when they involve a lot of failure and humiliation. #TheSchoolOfLife
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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
Our secular world is lacking in the sorts of rituals that might put us gently in our place. #AlaindeBotton
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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
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
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
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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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
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 noise of fast and shallow communications makes it harder to hear the quieter sounds that emanate from the depths. #DavidBrooks
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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
...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
...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
[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
Faith, if it is ever right about anything, is right by accident. #SamHarris
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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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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
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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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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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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Our propensity to impose meaning and concepts blocks our awareness of the details making up the concept. #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
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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
We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand. #EricHoffer
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If Passion drives, let Reason hold the Reins. #BenjaminFranklin
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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
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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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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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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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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Sometimes taking time is actually a shortcut. #HarukiMurakami
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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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[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
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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[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
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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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
Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will. #AntonioGramsci
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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
[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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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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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
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
Virtue is excellence, something uncommonly great and beautiful, which rises far above what is vulgar and ordinary. #AdamSmith
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Don't do anything that isn't play! #MarshallRosenberg
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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
Nothing is inherently beautiful, sacred, or sexy; human feelings make it so. #YuvalNoahHarari
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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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...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
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
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
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
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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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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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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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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Remember this rule: intuition cannot be trusted in the absence of stable regularities in the environment. #DanielKahneman
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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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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
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
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
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
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
One of the most important forms of heroism is the heroism of conciousness, the heroism of thought: the willingness to tolerate aloneness. #NathanielBranden
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As long as people don't know about asexuality [not knowing that saying no forever and for any reason and in any context is okay] sex education, sex therapy, and popular depictions of sex are incomplete and people don't have the relevant information to fully consent. #AngelaChen
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As long as people don't know about asexuality [not knowing that saying no forever and for any reason and in any context is okay] sex education, sex therapy, and popular depictions of sex are incomplete and people don't have the relevant information to fully consent. #AngelaChen — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 3, 2026
Don't hire people just to fit the first job they will do; hire people you want to share your life with. #RayDalio
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It's easy to say that sex is important and it's harder to be vulnerable enough to say that sex is important because a lack of sex creates fear and insecurity. #AngelaChen
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Peoples once accustomed to masters are not in a condition to do without them. If they attempt to shake off the yoke, they still more estrange themselves from freedom, as [...] they nearly always manage [...] to hand themselves over to seducers ... #JeanJacquesRousseau
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Peoples once accustomed to masters are not in a condition to do without them. If they attempt to shake off the yoke, they still more estrange themselves from freedom, as [...] they nearly always manage [...] to hand themselves over to seducers ... #JeanJacquesRousseau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 2, 2026
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. #HenryKissinger
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If you speak English, 200 million out of 1.2 billion people will be able to understand you. If you speak Hindi, you have the ears of about 500 million people. If you speak Tamil, you have only 60 million people... It is a great handicap for any prime minister of India #LeeKuanYew
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If you speak English, 200 million out of 1.2 billion people will be able to understand you. If you speak Hindi, you have the ears of about 500 million people. If you speak Tamil, you have only 60 million people... It is a great handicap for any prime minister of India #LeeKuanYew — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 1, 2026
Society may subsist, though not in the most comfortable state, without beneficence; but the prevalence of injustice must utterly destroy it. #AdamSmith
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