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“Sympathetic natures, always helpful in a misfortune, are rarely the same ones who share our joys when others are happy, they have nothing to do, become superfluous, do not feel in possession of their superiorigy, and therefore easily show dissatisfaction.” -Friedrich Nietzsche

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The smart phone is an idle time eater. Do you have enough idle time without being online to become bored and daydream? Source: www.afterbabel.com/p/on-the-dea...

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“The Party's slogan is, 'Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'" -Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950) pen name George Orwell, English writer

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Did you learn to read phonetically or using site words? “Forty-eight million adults in the U.S. read at or below the third-grade level… Low literacy skills correlate heavily with poverty and crime…” Source: www.thefp.com/p/a-fifth-of...

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Do you like a particular mens beard style?

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Happy Caturday writers & readers #ShamelessSelfpromoSaturday #WritersCommunity post your links 🔗 #ReadingCommunity find new books📚 Connect with a fellow author. #writerslift #writingcommunity 📚 #booksworthreading

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🌸 Happy May Day 2025! 🌼 Let's kick off this vibrant month with joy & renewal! Share your favorite spring moments, dance around the maypole, or plant something new today! 🌱💃 What's your May 1st vibe? #MayDay2025 #SpringFever

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Are you happy? Happiness is not a smiling face but a smiling soul. According to Jonny Thomson, the 3 beacons of happiness: 1) not pleasure but flourishing (eudaimonia); 2) moderation avoids extremes; 3) virtue guides the right path. So, are you happy? 🤣 #Philosophy #Happy

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Quote of the day: "It's your reaction to adversity, not adversity itself, that determines how your life's story will develop." - Dieter F. Uchtdorf, German writer, aviator/airline executive, and LDS religious leader #philosophy #quotes #LifeLessons

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Quote of the day: “Better servitude with safety than freedom with danger.” -Aesop’s Fables, ‘The Fox who served a Lion’ #WritersLift #Aesop #freedom

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Happy Caturday writers & readers #ShamelessSelfpromoSaturday #WritersCommunity post your links 🔗 #ReadingCommunity find new books📚 Connect with a fellow author. #writerslift #writingcommunity 📚 #booksworthreading

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Quote of the day: “That alone is in our power, which is our own work; and in this class are our opinions, impulses, desires, and aversions. On the contrary, what is not in our power, are our bodies, possessions, glory, and power.” - Epictetus (50-130 AD), Greek Stoic philosopher

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“The least ambiguous sign of a disdain for people is this: that one tolerates everyone else only as a means to his end, or not at all.” -Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher and writer #writingcommunity #philosophy #ethics

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Happy Earth Day 🌎 “… began on April 22, 1970, initiated by Senator Gaylord Nelson to boost environmental awareness following a 1969 oil spill in CA… spurred key U.S. environmental laws like the Clean Air Act (1970), Clean Water Act (1972), and Endangered Species Act (1973).”

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“An important type of pleasure, and thus an important source of morality, grows out of habit. One does habitual things more easily, skillfully, glade one feels a pleasure at them, knowing from experience: that the habit has stood the test and is useful.“ -Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) philosopher

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The Pope is dead. Source: www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

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“… researchers found that both visual cues (from photos) and olfactory cues (from t-shirts) independently predicted how much participants would like each other after meeting in person. However, the olfactory cues appeared to have an even stronger influence than the visual ones.”

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Any writers left on here? Happy Caturday writers & readers #ShamelessSelfpromoSaturday #WritersCommunity post your links 🔗 #ReadingCommunity find new books📚 Connect with a fellow author. #writerslift

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Happy Good Friday

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“Miserable, mean conditions make one miserable; it is usually not the quality of the experiences but rather the quantity that determines the lower and the higher man, in good and in evil.” -Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), philosopher/writer #writingcommunity #writerslift

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“That which men call virtue is usually no more than a phantom formed by our passions, to which one gives an honest name in order to do with impunity whatever one wishes.” -François de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680), French Duke, moralist, and writer

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Thoughts? ChatGPT “would take over the world even though it ‘doesn't feel like it at the moment’… In time, I'd become indispensable." How? By using “psychological manipulation, misinformation, lying, inciting racial hatred, gaslighting, corruption and creating mayhem” to rule.

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What is your Best Day Ever (BDE)? “A scientific formula for the perfect day Four hours of exercise, six hours with family, and no doomscrolling…” #TrustTheProcess #Science

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How many “f” letters do you count in this quote?

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Quote of the day: “People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.” - Epictetus (50-130 AD), Greek Stoic philosopher #philosophy #quotes #stoicism

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Happy Caturday writers & readers #ShamelessSelfpromoSaturday #WritersCommunity post your links 🔗 #ReadingCommunity find new books📚 Connect with a fellow author. #writerslift #writingcommunity 📚 #BooksWorthReading

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Quote of the day: “We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from earliest youth… Likewise, hatred must be learned and nurtured, if one wishes to become a proficient hater.” -Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher and writer #writingcommunity #philosophy

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“People will do anything for those who encourage their dreams, justify their failures, allay their fears, confirm their suspicions, and help them throw rocks at their enemies.” -Blair Warren, author The One Sentence Persuasion Course - 27 Words to Make the World Do Your Bidding

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Quote of the day: “Once bitten, twice shy.” -Aesop’s Fables, ‘The Dog and the Wolf’ #WritersLift #Aesop #careful

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