Action Quotes

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Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone

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It's necessary to use suffering. Otherwise, one is used by it.

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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.

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Love without sacrifice is like theft

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Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.

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What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what they don't say about themselves.

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In the past, only some of the males, but all of the females, were able to procreate. Equality is more natural for females.

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They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.

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Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur

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My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal

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In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations

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The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one.

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Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists...more

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Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators

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Know how to rank your beliefs not according to their plausibility but by the harm they may cause.

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It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one. Those who have followed the assertive id...more

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It took us a while to discover that we do effectively think, but that we more readily narrate backward in order to give ourselves the illusion of unde...more

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The next time someone pesters you with unneeded advice, gently remind him of the fate of the monk whom Ivan the Terrible put to death for delivering u...more

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. . . the world in which we live has an increasing number of feedback loops, causing events to be the cause of more events (say, people buy a book bec...more

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Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that’s what ...more

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If you hear a "prominent" economist using the word 'equilibrium,' or 'normal distribution,' do not argue with him; just ignore him, or try to put a ra...more

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I always think the most romantic books or films are the ones where the romance doesn't happen, because it makes your heart ache so much watching it.

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There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart’s Desire.

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Someone with a low degree of epistemic arrogance is not too visible, like a shy person at a cocktail party. We are not predisposed to respect humble p...more

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You cannot do anything with knowledge unless you know where it stops, and the costs of using it.

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A theory is like medicine (or government): often useless, sometimes necessary, always self-serving, and on occasion lethal. So it needs to be used wit...more

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The problem is that our ideas are sticky: once we produce a theory, we are not likely to change our minds....

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Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates,...more

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I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.

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Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.