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#1

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: paraphrased, strength

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#2

“Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect women and children. None of their pain or achievement is registered in feminist rhetoric, which portrays men as oppressive and callous exploiters.”
― Camille Paglia

tags: bias, feminism, gender, gender-roles, misandry, patriarchy, reality, relationships, self-knowledge, sexes, sexism, socialism, statism, stereotypes, truth, useful-idiots

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#3

“My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.”
― Jane Austen

tags: classics, romance, victorian

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#4

“Although I was always a keen library user, buying books was a different order of bliss, because I would get to live with these ones.
(A Chat with Emma Donoghue)”
― Jen Campbell, The Bookshop Book

tags: books

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#5

“Whenever someone starts talking about 'fair competition' or indeed, about 'fairness' in general, it is time to keep a sharp eye on your wallet, for it is about to be picked.”
― Murray N. Rothbard

tags: anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, austrian-school-of-economics, coercion, fair, free-markets, freedom, gang, government, interventionism, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, mafia, non-aggression-principle, protectionism, rulers, statism, taxation, theft, thieves, trade, voluntaryism

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#6

“You see, bookshops are dreams built of wood and paper. They are time travel and escape and knowledge and power. They are, simply put, the best of places.”
― Jen Campbell, The Bookshop Book

tags: bookshops, bookstores

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#7

“Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor

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#8

“In the years ahead of me, I learned that the world is actually filled with people ready to tell you how likely something is, and what it means to be realistic. But what I have also learned is that no one, no one truly knows what is possible until they go and do it.”
― Liz Murray, Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard

tags: inspirational

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#9

“Instead, what I was beginning to understand was that however things unfolded from here on, whatever the next chapter was, my life could never be the sum of one circumstance. It would be determined, as it had always been, by my willingness to put one foot in front of the other, moving forward, come what may.”
― Liz Murray, Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard

tags: inspirational

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#10

“I knew at that moment I had to make a choice... I could submit to everything and live a life of excuses, or I could push myself... I could push myself and make my life good...”
― Liz Murray

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#11

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown

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#12

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

tags: inspirational

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#13

“Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn't stop you from doing anything at all.”
― Richard P. Feynman

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#14

“In my view, ideas and other intellectual productions are more interesting, more indicative of intelligence, and more productively debated than IQ alone.”
― Christopher Langan

tags: brilliance, brilliant, creativity, debate, genius, ideas, intellectual, intellectualism, intelligence, interest, invention, iq, productions, pursuits, science

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#15

“There’s no logical connection between being smart and having money.”
― Christopher Langan

tags: academics, brilliance, genius, inspirational, intelligence, logic, money, poverty, study, success, suffering, wealth

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#16

“We live in a highly complex, technological world – and it's not entirely obvious what's right and what's wrong in any given situation, unless you can parse the situation, deconstruct it. People just don't have the insight to be able to do that very effectively.”
― Christopher Langan

tags: analytics, brilliance, complexity, ethics, insight, intelligence, knowledge, life, modern-world, morality, philosophy, right, sad-truth, science, semantics, stupidity, technology, thinking, thought, wisdom, wrong

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#17

“There is nothing to be gained by pretending that academic involvement is necessary, or even always desirable, in the quest for truth and knowledge.”
― Christopher Langan

tags: autodidact, autodidactism, education, education-reform, educational-philosophy, educational-system, homeschooling, intelligence, knowledge, public-school-system, school, school-reform, school-system, self-taught, truth, unschooling

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#18

“Barack Obama strikes at the heart of our deepest insecurities. He is a good father while many of us aren’t. He wears suits to his job while we wear overalls, if we’re lucky enough to have a job at all. His wife tells us that we shouldn’t be feeding our children certain foods, and we hate her for it—not because we think she’s wrong but because we know she’s right.”
― J.D. Vance

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#19

“The Seven Social Sins are:

Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Worship without sacrifice.
Politics without principle.

From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
― Frederick Lewis Donaldson

tags: character, commerce, conscience, happiness, humanity, knowledge, misattributed-to-gandhi, money, morality, pleasure, politics, principle, sacrifice, science, sin, sins, wealth, work, worship

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#20

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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#21

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
― Rudyard Kipling

tags: words

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#22

“If the word ''fuck'' is ''obscene'' or ''dirty'', why isn't the word ''duck'' 75% ''dirty''?”
― Robert Anton Wilson, Quantum Psychology: How Brain Software Programs You & Your World

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#23

“Because if you don't know how to manage time, time can rule you like a tyrant.”
― Frank Partnoy, Wait: The Useful Art of Procrastination

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#24

“The dog on the cover of this book—let’s call her Maggie—is a role model for those of us who want to make better decisions. Maggie could have devoured the biscuit resting on her snout in the blink of an eye. Instead, she is holding back, showing us she can keep her instincts and emotions in check, delaying the pleasure of the snack she can smell all too well. Although this book is mostly about human beings, not animals, its central point is that we can learn a lot from Maggie.”
― Frank Partnoy, Wait: The Art and Science of Delay

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#25

“Psychologists have suggested we have two systems of thinking, one intuitive and one analytical, both of which can lead us to make serious cognitive mistakes.”
― Frank Partnoy, Wait: The Art and Science of Delay

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#26

“Yet we still don’t understand the role time and delay play in our decisions and why we continue to make all kinds of timing errors, reacting too fast or too slow. Delay alone can turn a good decision into a bad one, or vice versa. Much recent research about decisions helps us understand what we should do or how we should do it, but it says little about when. Sometimes we should trust our gut and respond instantly. But other times we should postpone our actions and decisions. Sometimes we should rely on our quick intuition. But other times we should plan and analyze.”
― Frank Partnoy, Wait: The Art and Science of Delay

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#27

“During superfast reactions, the best-performing experts instinctively know when to pause, if only for a split-second. The same is true over longer periods: some of us are better at understanding when to take a few extra seconds to deliver the punch line of a joke, or when we should wait a full hour before making a judgment about another person. Part of this skill is gut instinct, and part of it is analytical.”
― Frank Partnoy, Wait: The Art and Science of Delay

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#28

“The essence of my case is this: given the fast pace of modern life, most of us tend to react too quickly. We don’t, or can’t, take enough time to think about the increasingly complex timing challenges we face. Technology surrounds us, speeding us up. We feel its crush every day, both at work and at home. Yet the best time managers are comfortable pausing for as long as necessary before they act, even in the face of the most pressing decisions. Some seem to slow down time. For good decision-makers, time is more flexible than a metronome or atomic clock.”
― Frank Partnoy, Wait: The Art and Science of Delay

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#29

“I’ve always felt that a lot of modern art is a con, and that the most successful painters are often better salesmen and promoters than they are artists.”
― Donald Trump, Trump: The Art of the Deal

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#30

“One of the problems when you become successful is that jealousy and envy inevitably follow. There are people—I categorize them as life’s losers—who get their sense of accomplishment and achievement from trying to stop others. As far as I’m concerned, if they had any real ability they wouldn’t be fighting me, they’d be doing something constructive themselves.”
― Donald Trump, Trump: The Art of the Deal

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