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“We are, or rather our natural desire to evade pain and to attain pleasure is, the primary reason we do or say every single thing we do or say.”

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Book:The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism
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“The pleasure or the benefit that the object of our deed derives from it is every now and then greater or even more important than the one we derive from the deed.”

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Book:The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism
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“Females and boys are the only creatures that propose others for friendship. As for the rest of us, friendship sort of just happens.”

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Book:The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism
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“In many cases, it was the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that fell for her man.”

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Book:The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism
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“In some cases, it is the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that has left her man for another.”

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Book:The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism
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“Tom Durrie (b. 1931) is a school critic, a nonagenarian giant, and a poster boy for longevity and vitality of a happy brain. His biography is rich beyond description, and reflects Durrie's infinite passion for life. His CV would suffice to fill in a few lifetimes, and is the best testimony that a rich and productive life is a self-sustaining process. Inspired by A.S. Neill (Summerhill 1960), Durrie found his own formula for free learning. Durrie has tried teaching in traditional and in alternative schools (for a sum total of over a decade). He was also a headmaster of a free school for a while. In 1966, the analysis of his teaching experience provides a unique insight into the impact of freedom on behavior and mental health of students. His text, published 54 years late (2020), can be found here: "Free learning in a public school". Durrie's three successful children received minimal schooling. None attended high school. Over decades of his analysis and interests, Durrie noticed cyclical processes, in which the school system tightens its grip on children and then enters a period of rebellion, and seeking new solutions only to fall back again into its hungry propensity for limiting child freedoms.”

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Author:Piotr Wosniak
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“Some of our friends are our friends only because we used to be friends.”

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“In some rare cases, a friendship between two people benefits both of them, and what’s more, in some rarer cases, it benefits both of them equally.”

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“*Prostitution* is a euphemism for rape incidents that the victim and the economy profits from.”

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Book:The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism
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“Every single good person is a good person for their own sake, not for the sake of humanity, not even for the sake of another human being.”

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Book:The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism
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“To label someone as selfless is symptomatic of having bought the preposterous claim that a human being can have great concern for other human beings and little concern for themselves, or that, when taken to extremes, a human being can have great concern for other human beings and absolutely no concern for themselves.”

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Book:The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism
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“It is humanly impossible to be selfless. As a matter of fact, human beings are inherently selfish.”

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Book:The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism
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“بابا می گه انسان مالک زمین خلق شده اما یه چیزی کم داره: یه پیچ گوشتی برای باز کردن افکار اشتباه، یه چکش واسه محکم کردن نیات خوب، یه آچار فرانسه برای سفت کردن عشق تا ابد، یه ارّه واسه بریدن از گذشته. اما این ابزار رو به ما ندادن و بعد از تلو تلو خوردن و تلق و تولوق کردن بلاخره دیر یا زود خراب می شیم.”

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Book:Margherita Dolce Vita
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“یک بار مردی در میخانه ای از من پرسید کتاب ها چه مزه ای می دهند،(( حالا دقیقش را هم نگفتی، نگفتی)). جوابش را از قبل آماده داشتم، اما برای اینکه کاری نکرده باشم که او از بیخ احساس حماقت کند، کمی وانمود کردم دارم به سؤالش فکر می کنم و بعد گفتم (( رفیق، با در نظر گرفتن شکاف عمیقی که میان تمامی تجربیات شما و من وجود دارد،برای اینکه نزدیک ترین طعم را به آن طعم منحصر به فرد به شما نشان دهم باید بگویم که کتاب ها، همین طوری اش اگر را بخواهید، همان طعم بوی قهوه را می دهند.)) حرف دهن پُرکنی بود، و از طوری که او دوباره سراغ نوشیدنی اش رفت می توانستم بگویم حسابی خوراک فکر کردن به او داده ام.”

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Book:Firmin : Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife
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“what, for instance, were you telling me about charity? And yet the gratification derived from giving charity is an arrogant and immoral tell nothing gratification, the gratification a rich man takes in his riches, his power, and the comparison he makes between his importance and the importance of a poor man. Charity corrupts both the one who gives it and the one who receives it, and furthermore, it doesn't achieve its goal, because it only intensifies poverty. Lazy people who don't want to work throng around people who give, like gamblers around the gambling table, hoping to win. And meanwhile, the pitiful coins that are tossed their way Such trivial are insufficient for even a hundredth of what they need. Have you given away much in your lifetime? Perhaps eighty kopecks, no more, if you stop and think about it. Just try to remember the last time you gave something; it would be a good two years go, and perhaps four. You're just making a lot of noise and impeding the cause. In today's society charity should definitely be prohibited by law. In the new social order there will be no such thing as poor people.”

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Book:Demons
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“Joshua took another small sip from his wine glass as his gaze and his thoughts drifted away from the flat-screen television mounted above the marbled fireplace to ponder a roomful of sports jackets and pantsuits and in some cases cocktail dresses but only of neutral tones and minimal detailing if for no other reason than to avoid becoming the subject of the next petty scandal that would nevertheless send shockwaves through their haughty and insular world. The way they stood in their intimate clusters. Their drink glasses held in various poses of sophistication. And whenever they did bring glass to mouth in accordance with judiciously preset intervals it was also for show, as he believed was true of their subdued conversations, which, from where he was sitting, appeared to be nothing more than the unintelligible murmurings of barely moving lips. A whole list of observations came to mind. Not one of them flattering in any way. The atmosphere thick with that certain stuffiness and elitist redolence of an ivy league alumni fundraising gala. Of course, he readily admitted to himself that out of everyone in the room he was very likely the most materially bereft and least credentialed and that this stinging truth undoubtedly inflamed his plebeian impulse. But that’s not what was bugging him.”

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Book:The Subtle Cause
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“Oh, I don’t know,” Karen groaned, feeling suddenly very feisty. “I just don’t think anyone with a loose appendage swinging between their legs—which we know corresponds to a loose screw in the brain—could ever be trusted with something as delicate as the well-being of someone not similarly encumbered.”

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Book:The Subtle Cause
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“Today, Jesus would be canceled. Called crazy. Too emotional. A threat. A man speaking of love in a world addicted to hate? Intolerable. Barabbas, on the other hand? He’d be trending. Verified. Launching a course: ‘How to Win Without a Conscience.”

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Book:Emotional Roller Coaster: Confessions of a soul reborn from the ashes
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“[...] For instance, a gay man who played with dolls in his childhood, dresses pink and engages in anal sex with another man triggers a gender prejudice, by proxy rather than based on a characteristic of their own, like racism and classism do: dolls and pink are traditionally associated with the feminine sphere, anal sexuality has a higher stigma mainly because a more visible power level play comes into effect (with a dominant and a submissive role) than other sex positions. Consequently, when a man crosses his "designated" gender role boundary of masculinity, strength, dominance into femininity, weakness, submission, then he is no longer valued as a human being, for the man has become [or is] a woman. Therefore, homophobia and transphobia are actually by-products of misogyny, which is is turn gynophobic whitewashing, deeply rooted in the dominant ideology of patriarchy and historical sexism.”

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Book:Philosophy Trips: A Naive's Guide
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“Technically, you cannot really own a book you bought; you can only own the sheets of paper your copy is printed on; unless, of course, you are the book’s publisher.”

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Book:The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism
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“After all, what is a dollar but paper? A bullet can save your life. Bullets make weapons more significant, and that makes you more significant. A man's life - what is that worth? Another man exists only to the degree that he stands in your way. Life doesn't mean much, but it's better to take it from the enemy before he has time to deliver a blow.”

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Book:The Emperor
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“Usually it is said that periodic droughts cause bad crops and therefore starvation. But it is the elites of starving countries that propagate this idea. It is a false idea. The unjust or mistaken allocation of funds and national property is the most frequent source of hunger. There was a lot of grain in Ethiopia, but it had first been hidden by the rich and then thrown on the market at a doubled price, inaccessible to peasants and the poor.”

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Book:The Emperor
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“[...] For instance, a gay man who played with dolls in his childhood, dresses pink and engages in anal sex with another man triggers a gender prejudice, by proxy rather than based on a characteristic of their own, like racism and classism do: dolls and pink are traditionally associated with the feminine sphere, anal sexuality has a higher stigma than vaginal, mainly because a more visible power level play comes into effect (with a dominant and a submissive role). Consequently, when a man crosses his "designated" gender role boundary of masculinity, strength, dominance into femininity, weakness, submission, then he is no longer valued as a human being, for the man has become [or is] a woman. Therefore, homophobia and transphobia are actually by-products of misogyny, which is is turn gynophobic whitewashing, deeply rooted in the dominant ideology of patriarchy and historical sexism. [...]”

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Book:Philosophy Trips: A Naive's Guide
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“But this is the power of storytelling, isn’t it? To make sense of the things we can’t figure out ourselves. We make up gods and monsters and origin stories and archetypes and tell each other it’s all explainable so we don’t have to feel the weight of the unknown. That’s the theory anyway. The practice is that we’re all so much better at seeing the faults of others, at watching them make their mistakes and judging from afar, our social telescopes so much more powerful than the microscopes we forget to use on ourselves.”

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Book:Fully Functioning: a postpartum descent into obsessive fangirling
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