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The good listener doesn't moralise. They know their own minds well enough not to be surprised or frightened by strangeness. #TheSchoolOfLife

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The good listener doesn't moralise. They know their own minds well enough not to be surprised or frightened by strangeness. #TheSchoolOfLife — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Nov 1, 2024
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A divorce is like a symphony with a screeching sound at the end--the fact that it ended badly does not mean it was all bad. #DanielKahneman

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A divorce is like a symphony with a screeching sound at the end--the fact that it ended badly does not mean it was all bad. #DanielKahneman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 31, 2024
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We have cooperative brains, it seems, because cooperation provides material benefits, biological resources that enable our genes to make more copies of themselves. Out of evolutionary dirt grows the flower of human goodness. #JoshuaGreene

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We have cooperative brains, it seems, because cooperation provides material benefits, biological resources that enable our genes to make more copies of themselves. Out of evolutionary dirt grows the flower of human goodness. #JoshuaGreene — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 31, 2024
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But if the aberrations of foolish youth made me forget such wise lessons for a time, I have the happiness to sense at last that whatever the inclination one may have toward vice, it is difficult for an education in which the heart is involved to remain forever lost. #Rousseau

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But if the aberrations of foolish youth made me forget such wise lessons for a time, I have the happiness to sense at last that whatever the inclination one may have toward vice, it is difficult for an education in which the heart is involved to remain forever lost. #Rousseau — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 31, 2024
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Keep things simple and don't swing for the fences. When promised quick profits, respond with a quick 'no'. #WarrenBuffett

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Keep things simple and don't swing for the fences. When promised quick profits, respond with a quick 'no'. #WarrenBuffett — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 31, 2024
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[Some] less-educated village priests saw the rituals related to purity and pollution as basic rules of the game, things you simply must do because religious tradition demands it. [Many] took a broader view and saw purity and pollution practices as means to an end. #JonathanHaidt

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[Some] less-educated village priests saw the rituals related to purity and pollution as basic rules of the game, things you simply must do because religious tradition demands it. [Many] took a broader view and saw purity and pollution practices as means to an end. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 31, 2024
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No investigation of our divine future can ignore our own animal past, or our relations with other animals--because the relationship between humans and animals is the best model we have for future relations between superhumans and humans. #YuvalNoahHarari

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No investigation of our divine future can ignore our own animal past, or our relations with other animals--because the relationship between humans and animals is the best model we have for future relations between superhumans and humans. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 31, 2024
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