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But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.
“Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.”
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“I could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other.”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
“Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive”
― The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
― The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
“THE WORLD IS increasingly designed to depress us. Happiness isn’t very good for the economy. If we were happy with what we had, why would we need more? How do you sell an anti-ageing moisturiser? You make someone worry about ageing. How do you get people to vote for a political party? You make them worry about immigration. How do you get them to buy insurance? By making them worry about everything. How do you get them to have plastic surgery? By highlighting their physical flaws. How do you get them to watch a TV show? By making them worry about missing out. How do you get them to buy a new smartphone? By making them feel like they are being left behind. To be calm becomes a kind of revolutionary act. To be happy with your own non-upgraded existence. To be comfortable with our messy, human selves, would not be good for business.”
― Reasons to Stay Alive
― Reasons to Stay Alive
“Public education does not exist for the benefit of students or the benefit of their parents. It exists for the benefit of the social order.
We have discovered as a species that it is useful to have an educated population. You do not need to be a student or have a child who is a student to benefit from public education. Every second of every day of your life, you benefit from public education.
So let me explain why I like to pay taxes for schools, even though I don't personally have a kid in school: It's because I don't like living in a country with a bunch of stupid people.”
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We have discovered as a species that it is useful to have an educated population. You do not need to be a student or have a child who is a student to benefit from public education. Every second of every day of your life, you benefit from public education.
So let me explain why I like to pay taxes for schools, even though I don't personally have a kid in school: It's because I don't like living in a country with a bunch of stupid people.”
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Telugu Readers
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A group for those who enjoy reading telugu novels and literature. తెలుగు సాహిత్య అభిమానులకు స్వాగతం.
Kannada Book Readers
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Kannada Book Readers Group: For All, interested in reading Kannada books, here is a place to share, discuss, review books on Kannada. The very fact ...more
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