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Reason
“Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason.”– Theodore Dreiser Instinct and reason both help advance the human species. However much of our evolution has relied…
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Rejection
“Most dazzling human achievements are, in fact, the aggregate of countless individual elements, each of which is, in a sense, ordinary.”– Angela Duckworth (Another way of stating this is that individually we are ordinary, but together we are extra ordinary). Layers and layers of simple inventions, like the parts of…
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Surprises
“Man is a deterministic device thrown into a probabilistic universe. In this match, surprises are expected.”– Michael Lewis The only thing we can truly predict in this world is that the world will be unpredictable. This can scare some people, as we naturally don’t like surprises, but acceptance is the…