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“Perfectionism is a self destructive and addictive belief system that fuels this primary thought: If I look perfect, and do everything perfectly, I can avoid or minimize the painful feelings of shame, judgment, and blame.”
― Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection

tags: blame, judgment, perfectionism, shame

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“Freedom of speech is unnecessary if the people to whom it is granted do not think for themselves.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: critical-thinker, critical-thinking, democracy, education, freedom, freedom-of-expression, freedom-of-opinion, freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-the-press, freedom-of-thought, independence-of-thought, independent-thinking, independent-thought, indocrination, liberation, mental-slavery, slavery

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“12% of employees eat because they are hungry. 88% of employees eat because it is 1 o’clock.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: break, employees, employment, food, herd-mentality, job, lunch, slavery, work

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“I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

tags: companions, company, privacy, solitude

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