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  • #1
    Simone Collins
    “A good psychologist will take already-traumatic events in your life and work with you to contextualize them as non-traumatic. A bad psychologist will take non-traumatic events in your life and twist your narrative to both make them traumatic and connect them to your current problems. The problem is that good psychologists solve your issues while bad ones create dependency and thus recurring revenue streams.”
    Simone Collins, The Pragmatist’s Guide to Crafting Religion: A playbook for sculpting cultures that overcome demographic collapse & facilitate long-term human flourishing

  • #2
    William Kely McClung
    “Legends were mostly bullshit, even his own, but they sometimes could be useful.”
    William Kely McClung, Black Fire

  • #3
    Malcolm  Collins
    “There are four steps to gaining ownership and intentionality over your personal identity and beliefs: Determining your objective function What is the purpose of my life? Determining your ideological tree How do I best fulfill that purpose? Determining your personal identity Who do I want to be? Determining your public identity How do I want others to think of me?”
    Malcolm Collins, The Pragmatist’s Guide to Life: A Guide to Creating Your Own Answers to Life’s Biggest Questions

  • #4
    John Payton Foden
    “And now insane men adrift in a world without order formed a line at the door.  They rendered unto her every evil act brought into this world by God.  They fell upon her with brutality that none of them at any other time would have thought possible.  There was once no scenario that would lead them to behave this way.  At any other time in their life there were no words or arguments that could convince them to treat a woman with such wanton disregard.  No one now asked, “What brought me to this?” Not one of them asked, “Who are these men?  How did we end up here, doing these things? Who am I now?”
    John Payton Foden, Magenta

  • #5
    Johanna Spyri
    “cannot”
    Johanna Spyri, Heidi

  • #6
    Oscar Wilde
    “It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such
    an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their
    absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack
    of style. They affect us just as vulgarity affects us. They give us
    an impression of sheer brute force, and we revolt against that.
    Sometimes, however, a tragedy that possesses artistic elements of
    beauty crosses our lives. If these elements of beauty are real, the
    whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly
    we find that we are no longer the actors, but the spectators of the
    play. Or rather we are both. We watch ourselves, and the mere wonder
    of the spectacle enthralls us.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #7
    Mark Helprin
    “The best thing to do was to stop it while he still could, since it was something that would lead nowhere, painfully.”
    Mark Helprin

  • #8
    Christopher Hitchens
    “When Maimonides says that the Messiah will come but that 'he may tarry,' we see the origin of every Jewish shrug from Spinoza to Woody Allen.”
    Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian

  • #9
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    “An event of great agony is bearable only in the belief that it will bring about a better world. When it does not, as in the aftermath of another vast calamity in 1914-18, disillusion is deep and moves on to self-doubt and self-disgust.”
    Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

  • #10
    Christopher Paolini
    “What is the worth of anything we do?
    The worth is in the act. Your worth halts when you surrender the will to change and experience life.”
    Christopher Paolini, Eragon



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