There are habits of casual cruelty that will make one a schoolyard success but that will cause one to fail at meaningful endeavors later in life
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Fear that is not taken captive to curiosity is a tyrant
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A temptation is a crisis of wisdom
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People often have good reasons for having bad or flawed beliefs
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Pictures and artistic renderings from the ancient past of revelry and celebrating always seem darker to our eyes than they appeared to those enjoying it at the time. We are privy to all of the fierce things that happened afterward, and so we see those celebrations through the lens of sobriety.
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Much of life’s detritus and ephemera is pregnant with meaning but covered in a shell of banality that one must crack so that its beauty and/or its darkness can be taken captive.
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Social climbing is the pursuit of vapid excellence.
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