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I try to live with few rules, but one that I’ve adopted over the years is this: if it’s down to me being screwed up, or everybody else being screwed up, it is far, far, far more likely that I’m the one who’s screwed up.

— Mark Manson The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (2016)

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Evil people never believe that they are evil; rather, they believe that everyone else is evil.

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As a general rule, we’re all the world’s worst observers of ourselves.

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Pleasure is not the cause of happiness; rather, it is the effect.

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You too are going to die, and that’s because you too were fortunate enough to have lived.

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Action isn’t just the effect of motivation; it’s also the cause of it.

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