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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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