PONDER 2.0°

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When you work on something that only has the capacity to make you 5 dollars, it does not matter how much harder you work – the most you will make is 5 dollars.

There is no perfection, only beautiful versions of brokenness

I don't just wish you rain, Beloved - I wish you the beauty of storms

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

The only way to efficiently battle evil is to copy enough to know how to counter each argument, yet not enough to believe all the BS

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Student: Master, I lost my way in the forest yesterday! Master: You didn't lose your way in the forest yesterday, you lost the way in your mind yesterday because if you don't lose your way inside your mind, you won't lose it outside either

The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues.
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[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings.