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After a dynamic and intriguing start, it feels as though the author is desperately attempting to tidy up with a soiled cloth, caught in an endless loop.
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For example if you’re average and wish to make friends and socialize you have a plethora of options available to you. You can go to a nightclub, you can go to the bars, you can “watch the game,” or join a fantasy football league. No doubt
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“Let's face it. We live in a command-based system, where we have been programmed since our earliest school years to become followers, not individuals. We have been conditioned to embrace teams, the herd, the masses, popular opinion -- and to reject what is different, eccentric or stands alone. We are so programmed that all it takes for any business or authority to condition our minds to follow or buy something is to simply repeat a statement more than three or four times until we repeat it ourselves and follow it as truth or the best trendiest thing. This is called "programming" -- the frequent repetition of words to condition us how to think, what to like or dislike, and who to follow.”
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.”
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“Most people do not have a problem with you thinking for yourself, as long as your conclusions are the same as or at least compatible with their beliefs.”
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“People would rather live in a community with unreasonable claims, than face loneliness with their truth”
― Pearls Of Eternity
― Pearls Of Eternity
“To some people critical thinking means you mustn't be critical of them only others”
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