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What Was Man Created For? The Philosophy of the Common Task

by Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov

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Jun 17, 2026 10:35AM

“But there are none so frightened, or so strange in their fear, as conquerors. They conjure phantoms endlessly, terrified that their victims will someday do back what was done to them—even if, in truth, their victims couldn’t care less about such pettiness and have moved on. Conquerors live in dread of the day when they are shown to be, not superior, but simply lucky.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Stone Sky

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“I said, 'General, I believe in the well-known golden rule. If you've got the gold, you make the rules. Call it whatever you want.”
― Ben R. Rich, Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed

tags: science

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“If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

tags: inspirational, life-experience, self-development

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“How do you do it?” you ask. It’s hard to imagine. Not being able to die even when you want to, even as everything you know and care about falters and fails. Having to go on, no matter what. No matter how tired you are.
“Move forward,” Hoa says.
“What?”
“Move. Forward.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Stone Sky

tags: life

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“The act of paying is perhaps the most uncomfortable infliction that the two orchard thieves entailed upon us. But being paid,—what will compare with it? The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvellous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ills, and that on no account can a monied man enter heaven. Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition!”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

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