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You Are Not a Gadget

by Jaron Lanier

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Jan 02, 2026 10:59AM

“When you start giving, instead of getting, you make a difference… You can always give a warm smile, a sincere hello, a positive vibe… your concern, your attention, your time, your love, and kindness to those around you.”
― Roy Bennett

tags: attention, give, giving, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, kindness, life, life-quotes, love, love-quotes, positive, smile, smile-quotes, smiles

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“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

tags: ataraxy, independence, individuality, inspirational, self-assurance, self-awareness, self-containment, self-determination, self-esteem, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-trust, solitude

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“let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves”
― Martin Heidegger, Being and Time

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“People cause pain. Even good people hurt those they love. We all do it because we can’t help it. Most of us aren’t evil; we’re just stupid and flawed and not careful with others.”
― Victoria Helen Stone, Jane Doe

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“We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

tags: masks, pretending, pretense

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What is Philosophy? Why is it important? How do you use it? This group looks at these questions and others: ethics, government, economics, skepticism, ...more

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This a book club for anybody interested in reading existentialist literature and fiction. Every month I'll be putting up a new text either by an exist ...more

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2013 was the year for reading—or re-reading—Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu or In Search of Lost Time for many of us. However, these th ...more