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“Around 500 BCE, in what the philosopher Karl Jaspers called the Axial Age, several widely separated cultures pivoted from systems of ritual and sacrifice that merely warded off misfortune to systems of philosophical and religious belief that promoted selflessness and promised spiritual transcendence.”
― Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

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“Don't be afraid. Change is such a beautiful thing", said the Butterfly.”
― Sabrina Newby

tags: aging-gracefully, butterflies, change, fear, fearless, growth, insightful, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, maturity, wisdom-quotes

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“I’m lecturing my class last week. In the English language, I tell them, a double negative forms a positive. However, in some languages, such as Russian, a double negative remains a negative. But there isn’t a single language, not one, in which a double positive can express a negative. And I hear a voice from the back of the room: ‘Yeah, right.’ ”
― William Alexander, Flirting with French: How a Language Charmed Me, Seduced Me, and Nearly Broke My Heart

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“What evidence could possibly be put forward to show that one could have acted differently in the past?”
― Sam Harris, Free Will

tags: free-will

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“Presumably, the bells of the Church of the Ascension had been reclaimed by the Bolsheviks for the manufacture of artillery, thus returning them to the realm from whence they came. Though for all the Count knew, the cannons that had been salvaged from Napoleon's retreat to make the Ascension's bells had been forged by the French from the bells at La Rochelle; which in turn had been forged from British blunderbusses seized in the Thirty Years War. From bells to cannons and back again, from now until the end of time.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

tags: fate, russia, war

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