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“If you remember that something bad happened, and you can figure out why, then you can try to avoid that bad thing happening again. That’s the purpose of memory. It’s not “to remember the past.” It’s to stop the same damn thing from happening over and over.”
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
“And you must be cautious, because making your life better means adopting a lot of responsibility, and that takes more effort and care than living stupidly in pain and remaining arrogant, deceitful and resentful.”
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
“We don’t live in a perfect world, but we do live in the best world that has ever existed.”
― The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great
― The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great
“If you betray yourself, if you say untrue things, if you act out a lie, you weaken your character.”
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
“Evil may so shape events that Caesar will occupy a palace and Christ a cross, but that same Christ will rise up and split history into A.D. and B.C., so that even the life of Caesar must be dated by his name. Yes, ‘the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”
― The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great
― The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great
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