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#1

“What's needed on Earth is love of the dark side of ourselves”
― Jeremy Griffith, FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition

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#2

“The increasingly thoughtful child can see the whole horribly upset world and would be understandably totally bewildered and deeply troubled by it”
― Jeremy Griffith, FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition

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#3

“Throughout history we humans have struggled to find meaning in the awesome contradiction of our human condition. Neither philosophy, nor psychology nor biology has, until now, been able to provide the truthful explanation.”
― Jeremy Griffith, FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition

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#4

“When the human condition is finally demystified, human insecurity and nervousness will be at a maximum…for this ultimate enlightenment to be allowed, society is going to have to adhere scrupulously to the democratic principle of freedom of expression.”
― Jeremy Griffith, FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition

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#5

“While religions could not liberate humans from the agony of the human condition…they did provide an invaluable way to withdraw from the brink of madness”
― Jeremy Griffith

tags: jeremy-griffith, religion, religious-faith

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#6

“Men and women fall in love abandoning reality in favour of the dream”
― Jeremy Griffith

tags: biology, jeremy-griffith, love, men, quote, sexes, women

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#7

“The real debate about both the horrific inequality in the world and about the terrorism and frightening instability in the world requires analysis of the differences in upset-adaption or alienation-from-soul between individuals, races, genders, generations, countries, civilisations and cultures, but until the human condition could be explained and the upset state of the human condition compassionately understood and thus defended that debate could not take place.”
― Jeremy Griffith

tags: alienation-versus-humanity, civilisation, culture, future, human-condition, inequality, instability, jeremy-griffith, terrorism

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#8

“Finding understanding of the human condition is what rehabilitates and transforms the human race”
― Jeremy Griffith, FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition

tags: human-condition, jeremy-griffith, transformation

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#9

“The World Transformation Movement is the disseminator of this psychologically relieving and transforming, Instinct vs Intellect, ‘holy grail of insight’ explanation of the human condition—the insight humanity has tirelessly worked toward, yearned for, and now so desperately needs!”
― Jeremy Griffith, The Human Condition: What exactly is it, what caused it, and how the human race has finally liberated itself from the horror of it.

tags: biology, human-condition, psychology, science

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#10

“Pseudo idealism: apparent charitable behaviour that on scrutiny is revealed as selfish, because the giver is engaging in it only so that he or she can feel good about him or herself”
― Jeremy Griffith, FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition

tags: feel-good, human-condition, jeremy-griffith, pseudo, pseudoidealism, selfishness

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#11

“The journalist Richard Neville was frighteningly accurate when, in summarising the desperate state of our species’ situation, he wrote that ‘We are locked in a race between self destruction and self discovery’. ONLY ‘self discovery’ — this reconciling, ameliorating, psychologically healing understanding of ourselves — can save us from ‘self destruction’.”
― Jeremy Griffith, FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition

tags: biology, human-behaviour, jeremy-griffith, psychology

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#12

“We can finally transition from living in a dreadful state of denial and delusion to living in a wonderfully TRANSFORMED STATE of freedom from all the dishonesty and delusion that made human life so fraudulent, mad, destructive and chaotic.”
― Jeremy Griffith, The Human Condition: What exactly is it, what caused it, and how the human race has finally liberated itself from the horror of it.

tags: biology, human-conditiontion, psychology, science

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#13

“Until the human condition could be resolved it was not safe to acknowledge the different roles men and women played in the journey to enlightenment. Over time it was found that the best way to control prejudices was to prevent acknowledgement of any substantial differences between the sexes. The dogma of politically correct culture emerged.”
― Jeremy Griffith, A Species in Denial

tags: a-species-in-denial, dogma, human-condition, men-and-women, political-correct-crap, politically-correct-culture, prejudices

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#14

“Essentially, what has happened is that humans have become so habituated to living in Plato’s dark cave of denial that when finally given the means to exit the cave and stand in the warm, healing sunshine of self-understanding,”
― Jeremy Griffith, FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition

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#15

“We humans don’t suffer from a genetic-opportunism-driven ‘animal condition’, but a conscious-mind-based, psychologically troubled HUMAN CONDITION.”
― Jeremy Griffith, FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition

tags: biology, human-behaviour, human-condition, jeremy-griffith, psychology

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#16

“I'm in love with you," he said quietly.

"Augustus," I said.

"I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: doomed, inevitable, love, oblivion, pleasure, simple

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#17

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: books, power-of-words, reading

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#18

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: love

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#19

“He's like a drug for you, Bella.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse

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#19

“I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

tags: bella-swan, dreams, edward, hope, night, stars

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#20

“And so the lion fell in love with the lamb…" he murmured. I looked away, hiding my eyes as I thrilled to the word.
"What a stupid lamb," I sighed.
"What a sick, masochistic lion.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

tags: bella, edward, love

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#21

“Life sucks, and then you die...”
― Stephenie Meyer, Breaking Dawn

tags: humor, inspirational

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#22

“Forbidden to remember, terrified to forget; it was a hard line to walk.”
― Stephenie Meyer, New Moon

tags: memory

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#23

“Perhaps there could be no joy on this planet without an equal weight of pain to balance it out on some unknown scale.”
― Stephenie Meyer , The Host

tags: balance

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#24

“When you can live forever what do you live for?”
― Stephenie Meyer

tags: eternity, immortal, life, meaning

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#25

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#26

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy

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#27

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#28

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor

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#29

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: books, library, reading

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