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Alan
is 49% done
“Sex isn’t what makes a relationship real; the willingness to expend effort maintaining it is. . . . Having a real relationship . . . requires that you be willing to balance the other party’s needs with your own. . . . [M]ovies always depict love in terms of grand, romantic gestures, when, for the long term, love also means working through money problems and picking dirty laundry off the floor.”
— Aug 20, 2020 07:28PM
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Alan
is 55% done
“Here was the line at which the pursuit of truth ceased to be an intrinsic good: When the only persons affective have a personal relationship with each other, other priorities are often more important, and a forensic pursuit of the truth could be harmful. . . . Pinpointing blame wasn’t the answer. Instead, couples needed to acknowledge each other’s feelings and address their problems as a team.”
— Aug 29, 2020 10:10AM
Alan
is 30% done
“Complex minds can’t develop on their own. If they could, feral children would be like any others. And minds don’t grow the way weeds do—flourishing under indifferent attention. Otherwise all children in orphanages would thrive. For a mind to even approach its full potential, it needs cultivation by other minds.”
— Aug 20, 2020 05:55AM
