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RE: Conventional Wisdom Thread
August 19, 2016 at 1:28 pm
When Asda gives you lemons return them and say you actually ordered some oranges.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
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RE: Conventional Wisdom Thread
August 19, 2016 at 1:32 pm
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Awesome people certainly recognize other awesome people.
Being a people-pleaser is the enemy of assertiveness.
Happiness comes both from within and from without. Without internal sources of happiness perpetual frustration and dissatisfaction is inevitable and without external sources of happiness perpetual boredom and emptiness is inevitable. Extracting both appreciation and pride from within one's self, identity and values and enjoyments and pleasures from outside one's self, identity and values -- from the external world -- is required to be at one's happiest.
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RE: Conventional Wisdom Thread
August 19, 2016 at 1:58 pm
Lasting joy and happiness is not found in the things we accumulate or in immediate gratification, but in the things we hold appreciation for.
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RE: Conventional Wisdom Thread
August 19, 2016 at 2:14 pm
All this philosophy is so cringy, utopian, idealistic and cute it hurts my mind.
Its still is a decent hobby.
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RE: Conventional Wisdom Thread
August 19, 2016 at 2:17 pm
Because your posts are just dripping with meaning, PP.
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RE: Conventional Wisdom Thread
August 19, 2016 at 2:18 pm
PP's posts might be profound if I could decipher what he's trying to say in half of them or their relevance to the current topics.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
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RE: Conventional Wisdom Thread
August 19, 2016 at 3:24 pm
It's okay to own things so long as you don't let them own you.
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RE: Conventional Wisdom Thread
August 19, 2016 at 3:33 pm
Wherever you go; there you are.
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