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We should not be surprised that what people take away from science education is a syncretic mishmash, where gravity and electromagnetism coexist with psi, qi, karma, and crystal healing. #StevenPinker

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We should not be surprised that what people take away from science education is a syncretic mishmash, where gravity and electromagnetism coexist with psi, qi, karma, and crystal healing. #StevenPinker — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 19, 2024
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So the next time you see a person with a composed face and a soft voice, remember that inside her mind she might be solving an equation, composing a sonnet, designing a hat. She might, that is, be deploying the powers of quiet. #SusanCain

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So the next time you see a person with a composed face and a soft voice, remember that inside her mind she might be solving an equation, composing a sonnet, designing a hat. She might, that is, be deploying the powers of quiet. #SusanCain — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 19, 2024
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When judging modernity, it is all too tempting to take the viewpoint of a twenty-first-century middle-class Westerner. #YuvalNoahHarari

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When judging modernity, it is all too tempting to take the viewpoint of a twenty-first-century middle-class Westerner. #YuvalNoahHarari — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 18, 2024
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Individualism thrives in the prosaic world, the world of career choices and worldly accomplishment. The second-mountain ethos says, No, this is an enchanted world, a moral and emotional drama. Individualism accepts and assumes self-interest. #DavidBrooks

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Individualism thrives in the prosaic world, the world of career choices and worldly accomplishment. The second-mountain ethos says, No, this is an enchanted world, a moral and emotional drama. Individualism accepts and assumes self-interest. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 18, 2024
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But those layers [of life covered by economics and political science and evolutionary psychology] don't explain Chartres Cathedral or Ode to Joy; they don't explain Nelson Mandela in jail, Abraham Lincoln in the war room, or a mother holding her baby. #DavidBrooks

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But those layers [of life covered by economics and political science and evolutionary psychology] don't explain Chartres Cathedral or Ode to Joy; they don't explain Nelson Mandela in jail, Abraham Lincoln in the war room, or a mother holding her baby. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 18, 2024
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The point of modernity is to live a life without illusions while not becoming disillusioned #AntonioGramsci

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The point of modernity is to live a life without illusions while not becoming disillusioned #AntonioGramsci — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 18, 2024
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We don't become better because we acquire new information. We become better because we acquire better loves. We don't become what we know. Education is a process of love formation. When you go to a school, it should offer you new things to love. #DavidBrooks

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We don't become better because we acquire new information. We become better because we acquire better loves. We don't become what we know. Education is a process of love formation. When you go to a school, it should offer you new things to love. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Apr 18, 2024
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