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    Aristotle
    “Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: teaching, understanding
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Well, pray if you like, only you'd do better to use your judgment.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: rationality, religion
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    Ricky Gervais
    “A Christian telling an atheist they're going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they're not getting any presents from Santa.”
    ― Ricky Gervais
    tags: atheism, christianity, comedy, humor, humour, rationality, religion, scepticism, skepticisim
    116 likes

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    Nathaniel Branden
    “Anyone who engages in the practice of psychotherapy confronts every day the devastation wrought by the teachings of religion.”
    ― Nathaniel Branden
    tags: psychology, rationality, self-esteem, self-knowledge
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    Stefan Molyneux
    “You cannot connect with anyone except through reality.”
    ― Stefan Molyneux
    tags: connection, delusion, friendship, people, philosophy, psychology, rationality, relations, relationships
    29 likes

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    George Carlin
    “Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, misattributed-george-carlin, stupidity
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    Harlan Ellison
    “You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
    ― Harlan Ellison
    tags: ignorance, intelligence, opinions, stupidity
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    Sigmund Freud
    “It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.”
    ― Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
    tags: admiration, escape, false-standards, impossible, impression, measurement, power, science, success, true-value, underestimate, value, wealth
    521 likes

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    Sigmund Freud
    “Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have , so to speak , pawned a part of their narcissism.”
    ― Sigmund Freud
    tags: change, life, love, personality
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    Sigmund Freud
    “Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.”
    ― Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
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    Criss Jami
    “The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
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    Ann Landers
    “Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life. ”
    ― Ann Landers
    tags: arrogance, character, class, cockiness, discipline, money, self-discipline, self-knowledge, sure-footedness
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    Criss Jami
    “A solid answer to everything is not necessary. Blurry concepts influence one to focus, but postulated clarity influences arrogance.”
    ― Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile
    tags: answers, arrogance, blurred, clarity, cockiness, influence, solid
    89 likes

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    Criss Jami
    “An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he can outwit his teachers?”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: arrogance, attention, attention-span, confidence, ego, genius, gifted, humility, imagination, learning, pride, school, students, teaching, theory
    49 likes

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    Bertrand Russell
    “These illustrations suggest four general maxims[...].
    The first is: remember that your motives are not always as altruistic as they seem to yourself.
    The second is: don't over-estimate your own merits.
    The third is: don't expect others to take as much interest in you as you do yourself.
    And the fourth is: don't imagine that most people give enough thought to you to have any special desire to persecute you.”
    ― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
    tags: arrogance, narcissism, paranoia, self-centeredness
    250 likes

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    George Eliot
    “A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life and death easily set at nought.”
    ― George Eliot, Middlemarch
    tags: arrogance, humility, physician, psychology
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    John Hersey
    “Do not work primarily for money; do your duty to patients first and let the money follow; our life is short, we don't live twice; the whirlwind will pick up the leaves and spin them, but then it will drop them and they will form a pile.”
    ― John Hersey, Hiroshima
    tags: doctor, money, physician, wealth
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    Jacob M. Appel
    “Such is the demographic paradox of a junior physician's relationship with his patients: I worry about how to extend their lives. This anxiety inevitably shortens my own.”
    ― Jacob M. Appel, Phoning Home
    tags: clinician, doctoring, hospital, house-staff, intern, jacob-appel, jacob-m-appel, life, life-extension, medicine, paradox, patient, physician, resident, science
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    Harvey Williams Cushing
    “A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more than even the whole man—he must view the man in his world.”
    ― Harvey Cushing
    tags: disease, physician, science, view, world
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Modesty is only arrogance by stealth.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, The Long Earth
    tags: arrogance, modesty
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    Criss Jami
    “The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable; the latter is not.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: arrogance, dangerous, dishonesty, ignorance, intellectual-dishonesty, intelligence, knowledge, pretense, pretentiousness, pride, profound, teaching, wisdom
    38 likes

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    Erich Fromm
    “One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.”
    ― Erich Fromm
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    Erich Fromm
    “That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.”
    ― Erich Fromm, The Sane Society
    tags: mental-illness, sanity, society
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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “Spam is a waste of the receivers’ time, and, a waste of the sender’s optimism.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit
    tags: advertising, marketing, optimism, spam, time, waste
    22 likes

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    Michael Bassey Johnson
    “Real men don't dance to other people's tune, instead, they play for others to dance.”
    ― Michael Bassey Johnson
    tags: believe-in-yourself, convert, converting, daring, disciple, divergence, drum, follower, headstrong, influence, initiative, lead, leadership, leading, men, michael-bassey-johnson, non-submission, nonchalance, nonchalant, noncomform, noncomformist, playing, power, real-man, real-men, stand-firm, standing-firm, uncompromise, working-hard
    31 likes

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    Michael Bassey Johnson
    “The enemy stays in the hearts of friends. Watch what your friends know about you and watch what you tell your friends, remember, egoism breeds jealousy and ends a relationship in discord.”
    ― Michael Bassey Johnson
    tags: awareness, discord, egoism, egotism, enemy, envy, friends, heart, hearts, jealousy, love, michael-bassey-johnson, pride, relationship, watch
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    Michael Bassey Johnson
    “There's a big difference on being wise and being crafty. The former is the attribute of God, and the latter is that of Satan.”
    ― Michael Bassey Johnson
    tags: attribute, attribution, bad, character, crafty, demon, devil, enemy, evil, fiend, fiendish, fox, god, image, inhumanity, michael-bassey-johnson, resemblance, satan, villian, wicked, wisdom, wise, witchcraft
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    Michael Bassey Johnson
    “You create silent enemies by revealing how much God has blessed you.”
    ― Michael Bassey Johnson
    tags: blessed, blessing, enemies, haters, hatred, michael-bassey-johnson, reveal, silence, silent
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    Michael Bassey Johnson
    “Don't be indifferent about any random idea that occurs to you, because each and every idea is for a particular purpose. it may not be beneficial to you, but can be what others are craving for”
    ― Michael Bassey Johnson
    tags: aspiration, aspiring, beneficial, benefits, crave, craving, despising-ideas, idea, indifference, inspirational, michael-bassey-johnson, motivational, purpose, random, random-thoughts, writers, writing
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    Michael Bassey Johnson
    “Always remember that you were once alone, and the crowd you see in your life today are just as unecessary as when you were alone.”
    ― Michael Bassey Johnson
    tags: alone, bad-company, bad-friends, believe-in-yourself, company, composure, contentment, crowd, detachment, disturbance, enigma, enigmatic, freedom, friends, friendship, friendships, happiness, liberty, lonely, lonliness, michael-bassey-johnson, negative-people, once, one, privacy, private-life, remember, rememberance, separation, single, today, toxic-people, unecessary, yesterday, you
    194 likes



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