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The only proven method for curbing population growth is to eradicate extreme poverty #HansRosling

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The only proven method for curbing population growth is to eradicate extreme poverty #HansRosling — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 6, 2026
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We are wired for nostalgia: in human memory, time heals most wounds. #StevenPinker

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We are wired for nostalgia: in human memory, time heals most wounds. #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 4, 2026
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The Christmas presents once opened are Not So Much Fun as they were while we were in the process of examining, lifting, shaking, thinking about, and opening them. #BenjaminHoff

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The Christmas presents once opened are Not So Much Fun as they were while we were in the process of examining, lifting, shaking, thinking about, and opening them. #BenjaminHoff — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 2, 2026
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In 1969 Israeli prime minister Golda Meir famously said that there is no Palestinian people and never was. Such views are very common in Israel even today, despite decades of armed conflicts against something that doesn't exist. #YuvalNoahHarari

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In 1969 Israeli prime minister Golda Meir famously said that there is no Palestinian people and never was. Such views are very common in Israel even today, despite decades of armed conflicts against something that doesn't exist. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 2, 2026
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Baring the ego in the late nineteenth century was one thing, but now, in the twenty-first century, it is a far more difficult matter. Creative professionals constantly have to find those realistic points of compromise between themselves and their environment. #HarukiMurakami

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Baring the ego in the late nineteenth century was one thing, but now, in the twenty-first century, it is a far more difficult matter. Creative professionals constantly have to find those realistic points of compromise between themselves and their environment. #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 30, 2026
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Without quite stating it plainly to ourselves, we hope that we too will be appreciated as this... that someone will feel about us this way and not only forgive us our frayed, misshapen bodies and characters--but will come to love us precisely for these things. #TheSchoolOfLife

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Without quite stating it plainly to ourselves, we hope that we too will be appreciated as this... that someone will feel about us this way and not only forgive us our frayed, misshapen bodies and characters--but will come to love us precisely for these things. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 28, 2026
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The self-reliant attitude is more common in America because even as the unemployed are offered a helping hand, there are measures in place to make sure they are actively encouraged, even compelled, to find work. #LeeKuanYew

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The self-reliant attitude is more common in America because even as the unemployed are offered a helping hand, there are measures in place to make sure they are actively encouraged, even compelled, to find work. #LeeKuanYew — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 26, 2026
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The basic unit in the polity is not the citizen but the tribe. #LeeKuanYew

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The basic unit in the polity is not the citizen but the tribe. #LeeKuanYew — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jul 26, 2026
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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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