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The first step in changing reality is to recognize it as it is now. There is no need to wish it were otherwise. It simply is. Pleasant or not, it is. Then comes behavior that acts on the present reality. Behavior can change what is. We may
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“We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.”
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“The keynote of minority prejudice is this: They are loathed because they are feared.”
― I Am Legend
― I Am Legend
“How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order is imagined.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
“I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much . . . because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land
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