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- I think people want to get married to end their emotional uncertainty. In a way, they want to end powerful feelings, or certainly the negative…
- The problem isn't so much finding good ideas (there is no shortage) as embedding the ones we have into everyday practice.
- The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.
- The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones.
- At the beginning of human history, as we struggled to light fires and to chisel fallen trees into rudimentary canoes, who could have predicted that…
- Perhaps because the origins of a certain kind of love lie in an impulse to escape ourselves and out weaknesses by an alliance with the…
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