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[On death pools] This attitude is an unwholesome mix of frivolity and obsession--toying with death even while fixating upon it. #MichaelSandel

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[On death pools] This attitude is an unwholesome mix of frivolity and obsession--toying with death even while fixating upon it. #MichaelSandel — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 1, 2024
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Many of those blessings for which our pious and pessimistic ancestors offered thanks, we now pride ourselves on having worked hard enough to take for granted. #AlaindeBotton

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Many of those blessings for which our pious and pessimistic ancestors offered thanks, we now pride ourselves on having worked hard enough to take for granted. #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Sep 1, 2024
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Above I mentioned Kant's categorical imperative, which he famously summarized thus: Act so that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or that of another, always as an end and never as a means only. #JoshuaGreene

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Above I mentioned Kant's categorical imperative, which he famously summarized thus: Act so that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or that of another, always as an end and never as a means only. #JoshuaGreene — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 31, 2024
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No matter how many options we have, the real challenge is figuring out how to evaluate them. #AzizAnsari

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No matter how many options we have, the real challenge is figuring out how to evaluate them. #AzizAnsari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 31, 2024
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The adversity hypothesis has a weak and a strong version. In the weak version, adversity can lead to growth, strength, joy and self-improvement, by the three mechanisms of posttraumatic growth... #JonathanHaidt

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The adversity hypothesis has a weak and a strong version. In the weak version, adversity can lead to growth, strength, joy and self-improvement, by the three mechanisms of posttraumatic growth... #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 31, 2024
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...we were wonderful traveling companions but in the end no more than lonely lumps of metal in their own separate orbits. From far off they look like beautiful shooting stars, but in reality they're nothing more than prisons, where each of us is locked up alone #HarukiMurakami

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...we were wonderful traveling companions but in the end no more than lonely lumps of metal in their own separate orbits. From far off they look like beautiful shooting stars, but in reality they're nothing more than prisons, where each of us is locked up alone #HarukiMurakami — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 31, 2024
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Of all the things that people do in the name of God, killing a girl because she doesn't bleed on her wedding night is among the most cruel. Yet the hymen [...] remains an object of worship among many religions and societies around the world... #NicholasDKristof

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Of all the things that people do in the name of God, killing a girl because she doesn't bleed on her wedding night is among the most cruel. Yet the hymen [...] remains an object of worship among many religions and societies around the world... #NicholasDKristof — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Aug 31, 2024
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