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When I die, if my liver is in proper working order, you'll know I wasted too many opportunities to enjoy myself.
- @ShawnOL
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
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I get it now.
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Good morning. When we’re young, we define ourselves as much by the culture we disdain as by the culture we love. A pleasure of adulthood is letting some of that go.
--Melissa Kirsch
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^ hard to know how to treat abusive people to good effect while avoiding being a door mat or abusive yourself.
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People with more aggressive and psychopathic tendencies adopt hostile behaviors quickly, but they find it difficult to abandon these behaviors when they are no longer adaptive or practical.
https://neurosciencenews.com/psychopathy-behavior-aggression-23739/2 -
“Everyone is an a s s hole sometimes, including me!” Advice to a youth group I led a long time ago, trying to teach them the intricacies of Life!
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"I've found that pragmatic factual reality is little consolation to most people seeking advice."
--Me
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain4 -
If you don't know Schmidtocrates, you don't know schmidt.
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
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"I could've had a Mi Querida!" Nick Bardis6 -
"If you punish a child for being naughty, and reward him for being good, he will do right merely for the sake of the reward; and when he goes out into the world and finds that goodness is not always rewarded, nor wickedness always punished, he will grow into a man who only thinks about how he may get on in the world, and does right or wrong according as he finds advantage to himself." ~ Immanuel Kant
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Nothing appears more surprising to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few; and the implicit submission, with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers.
David Hume
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“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
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“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.”
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If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.
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"Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue"
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It is easy enough to offend the imbeciles with intolerance too.
In either case what is involved is a judgemental attitude.1 -
Since my cancer diagnosis, my new motto is, “Any day you’re looking down at the grass is a good day.”
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Almost all the moral as well as natural evils of human life arise from idleness; and were our species, by the original constitution of their frame, exempt from this vice or infirmity...men at once may fully reach that state of society which is so imperfectly attained by the best-regulated government.
--David Hume
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain2 -
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.” —Albert Einstein
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Wish I knew this when I was an adolescent...
"What you think about me is none of my business."
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“Shît, I had fun knocking the shït out of people” - Díck Butkus
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