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f13eef2
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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values
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Henry David Thoreau |
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For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.
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compassion
learning
inspiration
science
philosophy
inspirational
knowledge
values
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Neil deGrasse Tyson |
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70873b4
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Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.
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waste
values
romeo-and-juliet
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William Shakespeare |
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8e03dc2
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" "Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt. Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne. Three be the things I shall have till I die: Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye."
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laughter
doubt
sorrow
friends
hope
life
love
wisdom
idleness
foes
inventory
contentment
sufficienty
superfluity
unattainable
envy
curiosity
knowledge
values
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Dorothy Parker |
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21c973e
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Your time is way too valuable to be wasting on people that can't accept who you are.
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attitude-toward-life
letting-go
inspiration
inspirational-quotes
life-lessons
life
inspirational
believe-in-yourself
wasting-time
self-love
values
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Turcois Ominek |
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061ea87
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If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.
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inspiration
on-fiction
values
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Richard Bach |
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e99ba16
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Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls: Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; 'twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.
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shakespeare
good-name
standing
libel
reputation
slander
value
society
theft
values
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William Shakespeare |
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732784e
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If you're honest, you sooner or later have to confront your values. Then you're forced to separate what is right from what is merely legal. This puts you metaphysically on the run. America is full of metaphysical outlaws.
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values
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Tom Robbins |
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88fc2f7
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Only men would think of cutting themselves to determine who the packleader is. Idiots.
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humans
values
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Christopher Paolini |
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bffce45
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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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wisdom
priorities
wealth-and-virtues
modern-values
truths
values
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb |
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b9c6c18
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"The first principle of value that we need to rediscover is this: that all reality hinges on moral foundations. In other words, that this is a moral universe, and that there are moral laws of the universe just as abiding as the physical laws. (from "Rediscovering Lost Values")" --
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universe
morals
physics
values
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Martin Luther King Jr. |
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6926abf
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You have a hierarchy of values; pleasure is at the bottom of the ladder, and you speak with a little thrill of self-satisfaction, of duty, charity, and truthfulness. You think pleasure is only of the senses; the wretched slaves who manufactured your morality despised a satisfaction which they had small means of enjoying. You would not be so frightened if I had spoken of happiness instead of pleasure: it sounds less shocking, and your mind wonders from the sty of Epicurus to his garden. But I will speak of pleasure, for I see that men aim at that, and I do not know that they aim at happiness. It is pleasure that lurks in the practice of every one of your virtues. Man performs actions because they are good for him, and when they are good for other people as well they are thought virtuous: if he finds pleasure in giving alms he is charitable; if he finds pleasure in helping others he is benevolent; if he finds pleasure in working for society he is public-spirited; but it is for your private pleasure that you give twopence to a beggar as much as it is for my private pleasure that I drink another whiskey and soda. I, less of a humbug than you, neither applaud myself for my pleasure nor demand your admiration.
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values
pleasure
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W. Somerset Maugham |
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d5c25aa
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"August: You know, somethings don't matter that much...like the color of a house...But lifting a person's heart--now that matters. The whole problem with people--" Lily: They don't know what matters and what doesn't... August:...They know what matters, but they don't choose it...The hardest thing on earth is to choose what matters."
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meaning
life
values
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Sue Monk Kidd |
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a38e890
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Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur
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post-modern
post-modernism
values-in-life
modernity
values
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb |
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70ec402
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[T]he values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs.
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stubbornness
values
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Jared Diamond |
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da0fb7f
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I don't know what sort of world she will live in and I have no fixed opinions concerning how she should live in it. I only know that if she does not come to value what is true above what is useful, it will make little difference whether she lives at all.
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truth
opportunism
values
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Cormac McCarthy |
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cae3fa2
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Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims. Happiness is not the satisfaction of whatever irrational wishes you might blindly attempt to indulge. Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy--a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your values and does not work for your own destruction, not the joy of escaping from your mind, but of using your mind's fullest power, not the joy of faking reality, but of achieving values that are real, not the joy of a drunkard, but of a producer. Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals, seeks nothing but rational values and finds his joy in nothing but rational actions.
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rationality
values
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Ayn Rand |
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b30aad7
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Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of the various societies' histories] towards success or failure: long-term planning and willingness to reconsider core values. On reflection we can also recognize the crucial role of these same two choices for the outcomes of our individual lives.
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history
success
reconsideration
society
planning
values
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Jared Diamond |
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452bfd3
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Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy, rather than in the coarse pleasures he indulges in today -- gluttony, fornication, ostentation, boasting, and envious vying with his neighbor? I am certain this is not a vain hope and that the day will come soon.
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hope
good-deeds
nobility-of-spirit
gluttony
mercy
values
sin
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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51c09dc
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The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death
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fear
religion
modern
modern-life
modernity-is-sickness
modern-values
evangelism
narcissism
modernity
values
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb |
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172da65
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If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things.
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gold
water
values
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Rebecca Solnit |
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d8d9778
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It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse.
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pragmatism
values
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Charles Dickens |
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d97909d
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There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for me to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed or enforced nor objectively interpreted - and you create a nation of law-breakers - and then you cash in on guilt.
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injustice
morality
innocent
law
innocence
justice
guilt
morals
values
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Ayn Rand |
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cbd089e
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"Is it really worth dying for the person you love?" [Maureen] thinks about this for a moment. "That's not the real question, Oliver. What you be asking is, Can you live without her?" --
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love
maureen
oliver
values
dying
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Jodi Picoult |
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e176a48
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It was about a girl who helps an ugly old woman who turns out to be a good fairy in disguise. Inner values versus shallow appearances.
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fairy
values
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Connie Willis |
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84dff39
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Above all, it seems to me wrongheaded and dangerous to invoke historical assumptions about environmental practices of native peoples in order to justify treating them fairly. ... By invoking this assumption [i.e., that they were/are better environmental stewards than other peoples or parts of contemporary society] to justify fair treatment of native peoples, we imply that it would be OK to mistreat them if that assumption could be refuted. In fact, the case against mistreating them isn't based on any historical assumption about their environmental practices: it's based on a moral principle, namely, that it is morally wrong for one people to dispossess, subjugate or exterminate another people.
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equality
morality
dispossession
extermination
subjugation
native-americans
environment
suppression
values
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Jared Diamond |
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4f7b7d9
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Society is invincible--to a certain degree. But your real life is your own, and nothing can touch it. There is no power on earth that can prevent your criticizing and despising mediocrity--nothing that can stop you retreating into splendour and beauty--into the thoughts and beliefs that make the real life--the real you.
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integrity
character
life
ideals
society
self
mediocrity
values
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E M Forster |
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5959667
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A clear purpose will unite you as you move forward, values will guide your behavior, and goals will focus your energy.
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collaboration
energy
purpose
goals
values
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Kenneth H. Blanchard |
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3984234
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Before I can say , I was. Heraclitus and I, prophets of flux, know that the flux is composed of parts that imitate and repeat each other. Am or was, I am cumulative, too. I am everything I ever was, whatever you and Leah may think. I am much of what my parents and especially my grandparents were -- inherited stature, coloring, brains, bones (that part unfortunate), plus transmitted prejudices, culture, scruples, likings, moralities, and moral errors that I defend as if they were personal and not familial.
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personality
morality
past
family
identity
predispositions
heritage
personal-history
values
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Wallace Stegner |
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0140d91
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Whatever modern democracies may tell themselves about their commitment to free speech and to diversity of opinion, the values of a given society will uncannily match those of whichever organizations have the scale to pay for runs of thirty-second slots around the nightly news bulletin.
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money
democracies
organizations
opinion
free-speech
values
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Alain de Botton |
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667b300
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Thinking is man's only basic virtue, from which all the others proceed. And his basic vice, the source of all his evils, is that nameless act which all of you practice, but struggle never to admit: the act of blanking out, the willful suspension of one's consciousness, the refusal to think - not blindness, but the refusal to see; not ignorance, but the refusal to know. It is the act of unfocusing your mind and inducing an inner fog to escape the responsibility of judgment - on the unstated premise that a thing will not exist if only you refuse to identify it, that A will not be A so long as you do not pronounce the verdict 'It is.
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virtue
man
mind
good
morality
reason
life
philosophy
truth
wisdom
john-galt
pursuit-of-happiness
objectivism
rational
think
thinking
morals
values
evil
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Ayn Rand |
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958e313
|
Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice -- and the alternative his nature offers him is: rational being or suicidal animal. Man has to be man -- by choice; he has to hold his life as a value -- by choice; he has to learn to sustain it -- by choice; he has to discover the values it requires and practice his virtues -- by choice. A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality.
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|
virtue
man
mind
good
morality
choice
reason
life
philosophy
john-galt
pursuit-of-happiness
objectivism
rational
think
thinking
morals
values
evil
|
Ayn Rand |
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b412a98
|
"I have brought peace to this land, and security," he began. "And what of your soul, when you use the cleverness of argument to cloak such acts? Do you think that the peace of a thousand cancels out the unjust death of one single person? It may be desirable, it may win you praise from those who have happily survived you and prospered from your deeds, but you have committed ignoble acts, and have been too proud to own them. I have waited patiently here, hoping that you would come to me, for if you understood, then some of your acts would be mitigated. But instead you send me this manuscript, proud, magisterial, and demonstrating only that you have understood nothing at all." "I returned to public life on your advice, madam," he said stiffly. "Yes; I advised it. I said if learning must die it should do so with a friend by its bedside. Not an assassin." --
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virtue
injustice
killing
good
learning
philosophy
public-office
doctrine
prosperity
peace
pride
vice
soul
values
evil
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Iain Pears |
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3a71a5f
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Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it--that no substitute can do your thinking--that the vilest form of self-abasement and self-destruction is the subordination of your mind to the mind of another, the acceptance of an authority over your brain, the acceptance of his assertions as facts, his say-so as truth, his edicts as middle-man between your consciousness and your existence.
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|
virtue
pain
man
mind
good
independence
morality
reason
happiness
life
philosophy
truth
wisdom
john-galt
pursuit-of-happiness
objectivism
rational
think
thinking
morals
values
evil
|
Ayn Rand |
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f2f363f
|
"It's astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself into, if one works at it. And astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself out of, if one simply assumes that everything will, somehow or other, work out for the best." -Destruction"
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|
confidence
happiness
philosophy
wisdom
inspirational
essential
knowledge-of-self
human-nature
values
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Neil Gaiman |
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0548d78
|
A society needs famous people; the question is whom it chooses for that role. Any criticism of its choice is by implication a criticism of that society.
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fame
social-criticism
society
values
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Max Frisch |
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3297c43
|
Happiness is the successful state of life, pain is an agent of death. Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. A morality that dares to tell you to find happiness in the renunciation of your happiness--to value the failure of your values--is an insolent negation of morality.
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|
virtue
man
mind
good
morality
reason
happiness
life
philosophy
john-galt
pursuit-of-happiness
objectivism
rational
think
thinking
morals
values
evil
|
Ayn Rand |
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2a3f4ca
|
As a basic step of self-esteem, learn to treat as the mark of a cannibal any man's demand for your help. To demand it is to claim that your life is his property - and loathsome as such claim might be, there's something still more loathsome: your agreement. Do you ask if it's ever proper to help another man? No- if he claims it as his right or as a moral duty that you owe him. Yes- if such is your own desire based on your own selfish pleasure in the value of his person and his struggle. Suffering as such is not a value, only man's fight against suffering is. If you choose to help a man who suffers, do it only on the ground of his virtues, of his fight to recover, of his rational record, or of the fact that he suffers unjustly; then your action is still trade, and his virtue is the payment for your help. But to help a man who has no virtues, to help him on the ground of his suffering as such, to accept his faults, his need, as a claim - is to accept the mortgage of a zero on your values. A man who has no virtues is a hater of existence who acts on the premise of death; to help him is to sanction his evil and to support his career of destruction. Be it only a penny you will miss or a kindly smile he has not earned, a tribute to a zero is treason to life and to all those who struggle to maintain it. It is of such pennies and smiles that the desolation of your world was made.
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virtue
suffering
trade
self-esteem
values
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Ayn Rand |
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c275c01
|
If you feel your value lies in being merely decorative, I fear that someday you might find yourself believing that's all that you really are. Time erodes all such beauty, but what it cannot diminish is the wonderful workings of your mind: Your humor, your kindness, and your moral courage. These are the things I cherish so in you. I so wish I could give my girls a more just world. But I know you'll make it a better place. - Marmee
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courage
kindness
little-women
values
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Louisa May Alcott |
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6659a53
|
You have sacrificed justice to mercy. You have sacrificed independence to unity. You have sacrificed reason to faith. You have sacrificed wealth to need. You have sacrificed self-esteem to self-denial. You have sacrificed happiness to duty.
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sacrifice
life
philosophy
john-galt
morals
values
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Ayn Rand |
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dc3d3ec
|
"You can either buy clothes or buy pictures," she said. "It's that simple. No one who is not very rich can do both. Pay no attention to your clothes and no attention at all to the mode, and buy your clothes for comfort and durability, and you will have the clothes money to buy pictures."
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values
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Ernest Hemingway |
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dd763dc
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What infinite heart's-ease Must kings neglect, that private men enjoy! And what have kings, that privates have not too, Save ceremony, save general ceremony? And what art thou, thou idle ceremony? What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more Of mortal griefs than do thy worshippers? What are thy rents? what are thy comings in? O ceremony, show me but thy worth! What is thy soul of adoration? Art thou aught else but place, degree and form, Creating awe and fear in other men? Wherein thou art less happy being fear'd Than they in fearing. What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet, But poison'd flattery? O, be sick, great greatness, And bid thy ceremony give thee cure! Think'st thou the fiery fever will go out With titles blown from adulation? Will it give place to flexure and low bending? Canst thou, when thou command'st the beggar's knee, Command the health of it? No, thou proud dream, That play'st so subtly with a king's repose; I am a king that find thee, and I know 'Tis not the balm, the sceptre and the ball, The sword, the mace, the crown imperial, The intertissued robe of gold and pearl, The farced title running 'fore the king, The throne he sits on, nor the tide of pomp That beats upon the high shore of this world, No, not all these, thrice-gorgeous ceremony, Not all these, laid in bed majestical, Can sleep so soundly as the wretched slave, Who with a body fill'd and vacant mind Gets him to rest, cramm'd with distressful bread; Never sees horrid night, the child of hell, But, like a lackey, from the rise to set Sweats in the eye of Phoebus and all night Sleeps in Elysium; next day after dawn, Doth rise and help Hyperion to his horse, And follows so the ever-running year, With profitable labour, to his grave: And, but for ceremony, such a wretch, Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep, Had the fore-hand and vantage of a king. The slave, a member of the country's peace, Enjoys it; but in gross brain little wots What watch the king keeps to maintain the peace, Whose hours the peasant best advantages.
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mankind
equality
satisfaction
humanity
work
life
ceremony
empty-form
exaltation
feudal-society
honors
pomp
burdens
fulfillment
purpose-in-life
peasants
meaninglessness
emptiness
royalty
kings
flattery
society
values
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William Shakespeare |
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3258752
|
if you don't respect the other person, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you don't know how to compromise, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you can't talk openly about what goes on between you, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. And if you have different set of values in life, you're gonna have a lot of trouble.Your values must be alike. And the biggest of those values... the belief in the importance of your marriage.
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values
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Mitch Albom |
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9c425e3
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Life is a process of self-sustaining and self-generated action. If an organism fails in that action, it dies...It is only the concept of 'Life' that makes the concept of 'Value' possible. It is only to a living entity that things can be good or evil.
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|
virtue
man
mind
good
morality
reason
life
philosophy
john-galt
pursuit-of-happiness
objectivism
think
thinking
morals
values
evil
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Ayn Rand |
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d4aa10e
|
Rationality is the recognition of the fact that existence exists, that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it, which is thinking--that the mind is one's only judge of values and one's only guide of action--that reason is an absolute that permits no compromise--that a concession to the irrational invalidates one's consciousness and turns it from the task of perceiving to the task of faking reality--that the alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind--that the acceptance of a mystical invention is a wish for the annihilation of existence and, properly, annihilates one's consciousness.
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|
virtue
pain
man
mind
good
morality
reason
happiness
life
philosophy
truth
wisdom
john-galt
pursuit-of-happiness
objectivism
rational
think
thinking
morals
values
evil
|
Ayn Rand |
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a514c2b
|
Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.
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virtue
man
mind
existence
morality
reason
life
philosophy
truth
wisdom
john-galt
pursuit-of-happiness
objectivism
rational
think
consciousness
thinking
morals
values
|
Ayn Rand |
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4c555ad
|
Are you seeking to know what is wrong with the world? All the disasters that have wrecked your world, came from your leaders' attempt to evade the fact that A is A. All the secret evil you dread to face within you and all the pain you have ever endured, came from your own attempt to evade the fact that A is A.
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|
virtue
man
mind
good
morality
reason
life
philosophy
truth
wisdom
john-galt
pursuit-of-happiness
objectivism
rational
think
thinking
morals
values
evil
|
Ayn Rand |
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102bbb4
|
Far from rejecting outright any hierarchy of success or failure, philosophy instead reconfigures the judging process, lending legitimacy to theidea that themainstream value system may unfairly consign some people to disgrace and others to respectability.
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status
values
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Alain de Botton |
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ccdae90
|
It is their mores, then, that make the Americans of the United States...capable of maintaining the rule of democracy.... Too much importance is attached to laws and too little to mores.... I am convinced that the luckiest of geographical circumstances and the best of laws cannot maintain a constitution in spite of mores, whereas the latter can turn even the most unfavorable circumstances...to advantage.... If I have not succeeded in making the reader feel the importance I attach to the practical experience of the Americans, to their habits, laws, and, in a word, their mores, I have failed in the main object of my work. -Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in American
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morality
usa
liberty
constitution
values
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Naomi Wolf |
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b269d2b
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Then it was that Jo, living in the darkened room, with that suffering little sister always before her eyes and that pathetic voice sounding in her ears, learned to see the beauty and the sweetness of Beth's nature, to feel how deep and tender a place she filled in all hearts, and to acknowledge the worth of Beth's unselfish ambition to live for others, and make home happy by that exercise of those simple virtues which all may possess, and which all should love and value more than talent, wealth, or beauty.
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virtue
wealth
talent
values
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Louisa May Alcott |
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a7110ae
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The uniform is that which we do not choose, that which is assigned to us; it is the certitude of the universal against the precariousness of the individual. When the values that were once so solid come under challenge and withdraw, heads bowed, he who cannot live without them (without fidelity, family, country, discipline, without love) buttons himself up in the universality of his uniform as if that uniform were the last shred of transcendence that could protect him against the cold of a future in which there will be nothing left to respect.
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pasenow
sleepwalkers
individual
post-modernism
universal
existentialism
uniform
values
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Milan Kundera |
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5c59538
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"Had I done it sooner, perhaps he might have lived. He was a man of courage and good heart, a proud man. Now he is dead. I saved the signal to use in a worthy cause, and when I found one it was wasted." "Wasted?" answered Fflewddur. "I think not. Since you did your best and didn't begrudge using it, I shouldn't call it wasted at all."
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worth
regret
morals
values
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Lloyd Alexander |
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f289fc4
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By using repetition, images, and other strategies - all of which communicate truths in ways that are not cognitively or propositional - marketing forms us into the kind of persons who want to buy beer to have meaningful relationships, or to buy a car to be respected, or buy the latest thing to come along simply to satisfy the desire that has been formed and implanted in us. It is important to appreciate that these disciplinary mechanisms transmit values and truth claims, but not via propositions or cognitive means; rather, the values are transmitted more covertly...This covertness of the operation is also what makes it so powerful: the truths are inscribed in us through the powerful instruments of imagination and ritual.
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imagination
disciplines
marketing
desire
ritual
values
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James K.A. Smith |
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df1d25c
|
One of the main tasks of adolescence is to achieve an identity--not necessarily a knowledge of who we are, but a clarification of the range of what we might become, a set of self-references by which we can make sense of our responses, and justify our decisions and goals.
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identity
life
respponsibilities
goals
decisions
values
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Terri Apter |
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2aad605
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...alas, in most of us good and bad are closely woven as the threads on a loom; greater wisdom than mine is needed for the judging,
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reason
philosophy
wisdom
inspirational
knowledge-of-self
values
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Lloyd Alexander |
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"Values aren't buses," she said shortly. "They're not supposed to get you anywhere. They're supposed to define who you are. And I'd rather be touchy-feely than morally bankrupt."
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morality
sinning
sins
morals
values
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Jennifer Crusie |
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Osman and Prideep had been in my employment for some weeks. Every Friday I would take the to lunch. It was the high point of their calender. During the meal I would harangue them as a reminder of what they had been hired for: but my orations never seemed to increase their output. I realised later that, in the East, a commitment to produce does not automatically accompany employment.
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india
society
values
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Tahir Shah |
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Don't let the bastards get you down. Stay true to yourself and your values. Most of all, keep going.
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progress
true-self
values
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Hillary Rodham Clinton |
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In the presence of Esch, values have hidden their faces. Order, loyalty, sacrifice--he cherishes all these words, but exactly what do they represent? Sacrifice for what? Demand what sort of order? He doesn't know. If a value has lost its concrete content, what is left of it? A mere empty form; an imperative that goes unheeded and, all the more furious, demands to be heard and obeyed. The less Esch knows what he wants, the more furiously he wants it. Esch: the fanaticism of the era with no God. Because all values have hidden their faces, anything can be considered a value. Justice, order--Esch seeks them now in the trade union struggle, then in religion; today in police power, tomorrow in the mirage of America, where he dreams of emigrating. He could be a terrorist or a repentant terrorist turning in his comrades, or a party militant or a cult member a kamikaze prepared to sacrifice his life. All the passions rampaging through the bloody history of our time are taken up, unmasked, and terrifyingly displayed in Esch's modest adventure.
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sacrifice
esch
sleepwalkers
imperative
broch
cult
post-modern
modern
certainty
purpose-of-life
order
symbolic
existentialism
fanaticism
novel
values
loyalty
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Milan Kundera |
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By mindfully deciding how to act in line with my values instead of mindlessly applying my rules, I was better able to make the decisions that supported my happiness.
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intentionality
values
rules
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Gretchen Rubin |
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To train a citizen is to train a critic. The whole point of education is that it should give a man abstract and eternal standards, by which he can judge material and fugitive conditions.
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education
morals
standards
values
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G.K. Chesterton |
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Belief's always right.. It's all right and it's also unmistakable. Every man has somewhere about him some belief for which he'd die. Only isn't it improbable that your parents and guardians told it to you? If there is one won't it be part of your own flesh and spirit?
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morals
values
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E.M. Forster |
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It used to be the smartest people didn't always want to be the richest people.
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philistines
values
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Paul Murray |
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We have power as consumers. We can exercise that power all the time by not choosing to invest time, energy or funds to support the production of mass media images that do not reflect life-enhancing values, that undermine a love ethic.
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humanity
change
optimism
love
consummerism
generosity
society
principles
values
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bell hooks |
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Having and authentic voice means that: - We can openly share competence as well as problems and vulnerability. - We can warm things up and calm them down. - We can listen and ask questions that allow us to truly know the other person and to gather information about anything that may affect us. - We can say what we think and feel, state differences, and allow the other person to do the same. - We can define our values, convictions, principles, and priorities, and do our best to act in accordance with them. - We can define what we feel entitled to in a relationship, and we can clarify the limits of what we will tolerate or accept in another's behavior. - We can leave (meaning that we can financially and emotionally support ourselves), if necessary.
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relationship
convictions
clarity
differences
communication
vulnerable
values
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Harriet Lerner Ph.D. |
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...they are dazzled by all the money that they are being offered. That is what money does, Mma Ramotswe--you must have seen that. Sometime we need to look the other way when people put money in front of our noses. We have to look at the other things we can see so the money doesn't hide them.
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money
priorities
values
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Alexander McCall Smith |
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"['L]ook, of course I know you and your family have "beliefs",' began Howard uneasily, as if 'beliefs' were a kind of condition, like oral herpes."
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funny
values
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Zadie Smith |
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"When an economist attempts to prove that it is "irrational" to vote in national elections (because the effort expended outweighs the likely benefit to the individual voter), they use the term because they do not wish to say "irrational for actors for whom civic participation, political ideals, of the common good are not values in themselves, but who view public affairs only in terms of personal advantage."
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economist
rationality
values
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David Graeber |
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It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves. It is more difficult to search for prejudices among the beliefs and values we hold.
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prejudice
bias
rationality
values
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Peter Singer |
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Every couple of months or so, some boundary breaking article comes out in a nationally published magazine. The article makes a big thesis statement about relationships. Like say how, women don't need men anymore, or how if you're a woman over thirty-five, you should just settle with whatever guy is half-way nice to you, or how monogamy is not feasible, or plausible, or enjoyable, for any human. And we should all be swingers, or a study is released that say's, you don't have to love your kids anymore or something. They're the kind of articles that are e-mailed everywhere and I get them forwarded to me about eight times. I will read one of these articles and immediately afterward I'm so swept up in it, I can't help but think Yes, Yes, that is one-hundred percent right. Finally! Someone has confirmed that little voice in the back of my mind that has always not loved my kids, or I'm so happy I'm that much closer to my swinging lifestyle I've always secretly been craving. I'm normal and now it's a national discussion and others agree and I can feel normal now. But then, a week later I'm thinking, I hate this. I feel awful. This wretched little magazine article has helped convinced more open minded liberal arts graduates that, the nuclear family doesn't exist without some hideous twist, like the dad is allowed to go to an S & M dungeon once a week or something. It makes me cry because it means that fewer and fewer people are believing it's cool to want what I want, which is to be married and have kids and love each other in a monogamous, long-lasting relationship.
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humor
mindy-kaling
lifestyle
honesty-quotes
values
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Mindy Kaling |