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When I’m not teaching, coaching the varsity soccer team, or having an affair, I am busy worrying about my daughter Emmy. She is six, and so happy I think it can only be a bad sign. She loves pink and princesses, which I was prepared for,
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“When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense.”
― Things I Don't Want to Know
― Things I Don't Want to Know
“Being annoyed by carefully crafted internet personas was part of my carefully crafted internet persona.”
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“You can only do so much pretending before you become the thing you’re pretending to be.”
― An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
― An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
“With outcome-based habits, the focus is on what you want to achieve. With identity-based habits, the focus is on who you wish to become.”
― Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
― Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
“The genius of apartheid was convincing people who were the overwhelming majority to turn on each other. Apart hate, is what it was. You separate people into groups and make them hate one another so you can run them all.”
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
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