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“Men who are inferior to their fellow men, are always most anxious to establish their superiority over women.”
― Mary / The Wrongs of Woman
― Mary / The Wrongs of Woman
“Willpower is just another name for the idea of choosing long-term outcomes rather than short-term ones.”
― Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
― Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
“As long as we lean on anything outside ourselves for support, we are going to be insecure. Most of us try to find support by leaning on all sorts of things - gold, books, learning, sensory stimulation - and if these things are taken away, we fall over. To the extent that we are dependent on these external supports, we grow weaker and more liable to upsets and misfortune.”
― The End of Sorrow
― The End of Sorrow
“Before you heal someone, ask him if he's willing to give up the things that make him sick.”
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“Rituals are, among other things, tools that help us process change. There is so much change in this universe. So many entrances and exits, and ways to mark them, each one astonishing in its own way. Even if we don't see birth or life as a miracle in a theological sense, it's still breathtakingly worthy of celebration.”
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