"If you're oblivious to other people, chances are……" — William Deresiewicz
"If you're oblivious to other people, chances are pretty good that you're going to hurt them."
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William Deresiewicz
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11 Quotes by William Deresiewicz
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There's no doubt about it: fun people are fun. But I finally learned that there is something more important, in…
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Life, if you live it right, keeps surprising you, and the thing that keeps surprising you the most…is yourself
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But it is not the job of truth to make us feel good. It is the job of truth to…
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Hence the vogue for double majors. It isn’t enough anymore to take a bunch of electives in addition to your…
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People’s stories are the most personal thing they have, and paying attention to those stories is just about the most…
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Don't play it safe. Resist the seductions of the cowardly values our society has come to prize so highly: comfort,…
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If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts
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Autonomy, adventure, imagination: entrepreneurshi p comprehends all this and more for us. The characteristic art form of our age may…
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Thinking means concentrating on one thing long enough to develop an idea about it. Not learning other people's ideas, or…
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People don't mind being in prison as long as no one else is free. But stage a jailbreak, and everybody…
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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
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Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
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