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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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Personal Development
"Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins."
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Personal Development
"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."
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Personal Development
"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."
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Personal Development
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
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Personal Development
"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."
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Personal Development
"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."
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Personal Development
"Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, see to the (be?) worthy of being known."
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Personal Development
"A human being is only breath and shadow."
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Personal Development
"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."
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Personal Development
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"The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all."
Emotional
"Where does personality end and brain damage begin?"
Psychology
"In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich."
Future
"I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along."
Life
"We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes."
History
"With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless."
People
"Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters."
People
"When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon."
Ethics
"Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want."
Life
"People don't have dominion over Nature. it's gone beyond that. Human beings and the world are now the same thing. The future and whatever happens to you after you die - it's all melted together. Death isn't the escape hatch the way it used to be."
Nature
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