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4d558be
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The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the difference between one permanent situation and another. Avarice over-rates the difference between poverty and riches: ambition, that between a private and a public station: vain-glory, that between obscurity and extensive reputation. The person under the influence of any of those extravagant passions, is not only miserable in his actual situ..
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happiness
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Adam Smith |
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01aa6b5
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Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
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superstition
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Adam Smith |
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544944f
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The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.
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Adam Smith |
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731294f
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I am fallen, flawed and imperfect. Yet drenched in the grace and mercy that is found in Jesus Christ, there is strength
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christianity
inspirational
jesus
strength
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Adam Young |
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832bec8
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It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities, but of their advantages
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Adam Smith |
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615d509
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Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.
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Adam Smith |
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7810d9c
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The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become...
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stupidity
work
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Adam Smith |
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d326e2f
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In regards to the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates as simple interest does, the rise of profit operates like compound interest. Our merchants and masters complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price and lessening the sale of goods. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits. They are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains. They complain only of those of other ..
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class-warfare
economics
labor
money
profit
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Adam Smith |
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cad9610
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I know you're not thirsty. That's bullshit. Stop lying. Lie the fuck down, my darling, and sleep.
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Adam Mansbach |
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4ef4f6d
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People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
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finance
government
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Adam Smith |
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7e318cf
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Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many. The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions.
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Adam Smith |
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d08668e
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We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.
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Adam Gopnik |
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ac2b44d
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Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.
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Adam Smith |
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d77d1d1
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Woah,' I said, blocking the doorway. 'You can't come in here. This is the girls' room.' Even as it came out of my mouth, I knew it sounded dumb. Dumb, I thought and maybe even . You...are a boy, aren't you?' I asked. 'I mean, don't take that the wrong way or anything -' J.Lo is a boy, yes.' I let that go. So...you Boov have boys and girls...just like us?' Of course,' said J.Lo. 'Do not be ridicumlous.' I smiled a wan little smile. 'Sor..
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gender
humor
politeness
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Adam Rex |
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91b032c
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All the kids from daycare are in dreamland. The froggie has made his last leap. Hell no you can't go to the bathroom. You know where you can go? The f**k to sleep.
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sleep
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Adam Mansbach |
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270f76e
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Is there a short-eared koobish, then?' Mmmyes ...' said J.Lo. 'But it is technically not really a koobish. Is more alike a kind of singing pumpkin.' We had conversations like these all the time, where I just eventually gave up.
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Adam Rex |
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b41a1cc
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." George Bernard Shaw"
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Adam M. Grant |
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9b5a6d1
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Can I see some ID?" "WE DON'T HAVE ID," said Jay, loudly. "'CAUSE WE'RE CANADIAN. WE DON'T USE ID...THERE. AND THAT'S WHY WE LOOK SO YOUNG. 'CAUSE WE'RE CANADIAN." Doug stiffened. Jay sounded crazy. Doug tried looking extra sane to even things out."
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canadian
crazy
funny
sane
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Adam Rex |
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477895c
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I spy, with my little eye, something that starts with ... G." "Sausages."
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funny
i-spy
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Adam Rex |
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7ce3032
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I love you forever' really means 'Just trust me for now,' which is all it ever means, and we just hope to keep renewing the "now," year after year."
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Adam Gopnik |
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dd2a68f
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YOU have no room to laugh, that's all. I'm not doing any worse with Boovish than you did with English.' Get off of the car,' J.Lo huffed. 'I am an English superstar.' Uh-uh. There's no comparison. 'Gratuity' in written Boovish has seventeen different bubbles that all have to be the right size and in the right place. 'J.Lo' in written English only has three letters, and you still spelled it 'M-smiley face-pound sign.
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Adam Rex |
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66d7d3c
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American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as nonhumans, so as not to be disconcerting. This place is called Disney World
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disney-world
humor
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Adam Gopnik |
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1545a32
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Wherefor are you knowing it? If you stacked all of the Gorg in the galaxy on top of eachother, the Gorg would kill you.
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Adam Rex |
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c34f6e0
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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that's all. --Oscar Wilde
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Adam Silvera |
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2367342
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Sneaky would be a lime-green Volkswagen. Nobody would suspect the assassins in the lime-green Volkswagen.
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funny
sneaky
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Adam Rex |
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3759d5d
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The Boov frowned. 'Everybodies always is wanting to make a clone for to doing their work. If you are not wanting to do your work, why would a clone of you want to do your work?
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Adam Rex |
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920c4b7
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Captain Smek himself appeared on television for an official speech to humankind. [...] 'Noble Savages of Earth,' he said. 'Long time we have tried to live together in peace.' (It had been five months.) 'Long time have the Boov suffered under the hostileness and intolerableness of you people. With sad hearts I now concede that Boov and humans will never to exist as one.' I remember being really excited at this point. Could I possibly be he..
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humor
invasion
irony
native-americans
parody
reservations
usa
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Adam Rex |
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faddddd
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Most striking about the traditional societies of the Congo was their remarkable artwork: baskets, mats, pottery, copper and ironwork, and, above all, woodcarving. It would be two decades before Europeans really noticed this art. Its discovery then had a strong influence on Braque, Matisse, and Picasso -- who subsequently kept African art objects in his studio until his death. Cubism was new only for Europeans, for it was partly inspired by ..
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art
congo
europe
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Adam Hochschild |
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98eb07a
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When I was a little girl,' I said, sitting down, 'the wallpaper in my room had pictures of Noah's story.' [...] You know what's weird though? It's weird that the ark would be such a kids' story, you know? I mean, it's...really a story about death. Every person who isn't in Noah's family? They die. Every animal, apart from two of each on the boat? They die. They all die in the flood. Billions of creatures. It's the worst tragedy ever,' I fin..
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noah-s-ark
wallpaper
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Adam Rex |
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a685afb
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The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped.
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Adam Gopnik |
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71267ff
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And yet the world we live in--its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor, its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence--is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget. Leopold's Congo is but one of those silences of history.
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Adam Hochschild |
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de38de3
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We could have made it to the Arizona border in a few more hours if we hadn't been distracting each other with stupid little arguments. Don't get me wrong; I liked J.Lo fine. I've made that bed. But I'm not sure there's a person in the world I could be with twenty-four hours a day for three weeks without getting a little snippy. If I ever meet such a person, I'm marrying them.
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humor
ideal-partner
marriage
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Adam Rex |
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90f6927
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What part of Canada are you from, honey?" "THE LEFT PART," said Jay."
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funny
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Adam Rex |
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b6002e1
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Furthermore, unlike many other great predators of history, from Genghis Khan to the Spanish conquistadors, King Leopold II never saw a drop of blood spilled in anger. He never set foot in the Congo. There is something very modern about that, too, as there is about the bomber pilot in the stratosphere, above the clouds, who never hears screams or sees shattered homes or torn flesh.
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Adam Hochschild |
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210aa68
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Then it suddenly and theatrically began to clean itself in the way cats do when they want you to know what a big deal you aren't.
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funny
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Adam Rex |
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d2803ee
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After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn't be carousels if it weren't so.
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Adam Gopnik |
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641a074
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Success doesn't measure a human being, effort does.
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Adam M. Grant |
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7ddc857
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Having a sense of security in one realm gives us the freedom to be original in another.
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Adam M. Grant |
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2222dbd
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As the years passed, new myths arose to explain the mysterious objects the strangers brought from the land of the dead. A nineteenth-century missionary recorded, for example, an African explanation of what happened when captains descended into the holds of their ships to fetch trading goods like cloth. The Africans believed that these goods came not from the ship itself but from a hole that led into the ocean. Sea sprites weave this cloth i..
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Adam Hochschild |
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9c3a1ba
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Passionate people don't wear their passion on their sleeves; they have it in their hearts." The"
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Adam M. Grant |
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9bb2209
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This is what I find most magnetic about successful givers: they get to the top without cutting others down, finding ways of expanding the pie that benefit themselves and the people around them. Whereas success is zero-sum in a group of takers, in groups of givers, it may be true that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
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Grant Ph.D. Adam M. |
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ff6b79d
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The playwright Edward Albee has characterized [the suddenness of the appearance of fruits and flowers in evolutionary history] as 'that heartbreaking second when it all got together: the sugars and the acids and the ultraviolets, and the next thing you knew there were tangerines and string quartets.
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food
fruit
page-25
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Adam Leith Gollner |
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1f92684
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Those who are conquered," wrote the philosopher Ibn Khaldun in the fourteenth century, "always want to imitate the conqueror in his main characteristics--in his clothing, his crafts, and in all his distinctive traits and customs."
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Adam Hochschild |
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c38089a
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As Marshall McLuhan pointed out, we've become so removed from reality that we're starting to prefer artificiality.
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page-196
simulacra
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Adam Leith Gollner |