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“If life is a classroom then you’re still in the learning process part. In the learning process part, if you make a mistake you can just erase it and try again. In a classroom your mistakes deserve course correction and education, not punishment. Here the goal is to teach you how to behave better, not to fail or get rid of you. In a classroom, you can be a work in progress, and that’s okay. In a classroom, you are free to make mistakes in order to learn, because mistakes are part of learning. There are still consequences to every choice, but in a classroom you can’t fail, because your value isn’t on the line. If life is a classroom, you have the same value no matter how much you struggle, how many mistakes you make or how you perform. If life is a classroom you are safe.”

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Book:Choosing Clarity: The Path to Fearlessness
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“One of the curious things about our educational system, I would note, is that the better trained you are in a discipline, the less used to dialectical method you're likely to be. In fact, young children are very dialectical; they see everything in motion, in contradictions and transformations. We have to put an immense effort into training kids out of being good dialecticians. Marx wants to recover the intuitive power of the dialectical method and put it to work in understanding how everything is in process, everything is in motion. He doesn't simply talk about labor; he talks about the labor process. Capital is not a thing, but rather a process that exists only in motion. When circulation stops, value disappears and the whole system comes tumbling down.”

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Book:A Companion to Marx's Capital, Volume 1
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“The childhood sexual abuse taught me that my value came from sex. In adulthood, I was driven to have sex since I always felt worthless. I felt important and desired until it was over and then I felt like garbage—the same way I did after the abuse. I desperately needed to feel valued again, which led to more sex. My sex addiction only stopped when I believed that I’m valuable apart from anything I do.”

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Author:Christina Enevoldsen
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“This is what the bourgeois political economists have done: they have treated value as a fact of nature, not a social construction arising out of a particular mode of production. What Marx is interested in is a revolutionary transformation of society, and that means an overthrow of the capitalist value-form, the construction of an alternative value-structure, an alternative value-system that does not have the specific character of that achieved under capitalism. I cannot overemphasize this point, because the value theory in Marx is frequently interpreted as a universal norm with which we should comply. I have lost count of the number of times I have heard people complain that the problem with Marx is that he believes the only valid notion of value derives from labor inputs. It is not that at all; it is a historical social product. The problem, therefore, for socialist, communist, revolutionary, anarchist or whatever, is to find an alternative value-form that will work in terms of the social reproduction of society in a different image. By introducing the concept of fetishism, Marx shows how the naturalized value of classical political economy dictates a norm; we foreclose on revolutionary possibilities if we blindly follow that norm and replicate commodity fetishism. Our task is to question it.”

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Book:A Companion to Marx's Capital, Volume 1
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“I believe the main purpose of life is to accept with gratitude what you've been blessed with so that you may use those gifts to mold yourself into the best person you can possibly be. Learning to discern things of true value from those of little or no worth is part of the process.”

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Book:Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
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“Man's inhumanity to man will continue as long as man loves God more than he loves his fellow man. The love of God means wasted love. 'For God and Country' means a divided allegiance—a 50 per cent patriot. The most abused word in the language of man is the word 'God.' The reason for this is that it is subject to so much abuse. There is no other word in the human language that is as meaningless and incapable of explanation as is the word 'God.' It is the beginning and end of nothing. It is the Alpha and Omega of Ignorance. It has as many meanings as there are minds. And as each person has an opinion of what the word God ought to mean, it is a word without premise, without foundation, and without substance. It is without validity. It is all things to all people, and is as meaningless as it is indefinable. It is the most dangerous in the hands of the unscrupulous, and is the joker that trumps the ace. It is the poisoned word that has paralyzed the brain of man. 'The fear of the Lord' is not the beginning of wisdom; on the contrary, it has made man a groveling slave; it has made raving lunatics of those who have attempted to interpret what God 'is' and what is supposed to be our 'duty' to God. It has made man prostitute the most precious things of life—it has made him sacrifice wife, and child, and home. 'In the name of God' means in the name of nothing—it has caused man to be a wastrel with the precious elixir of life, because there is no God.”

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Book:An Atheist Manifesto
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“Failure to recognize the historical specificity of the bourgeois conception of rights and duties leads to serious errors. It is for this reason that Marx registers...a vigorous indictment of the anarchist Proudhon... Proudhon in effect took the specifics of bourgeois legal and economic relations and treated them as universal and foundational for the development of an alternative, socially just economic system. From Marx's standpoint, this is no alternative at all since it merely re-inscribes bourgeois conceptions of value in a supposedly new form of society. This problem is still with us, not only because of the contemporary anarchist revival of interest in Proudhon's ideas but also because of the rise of a more broad-based liberal human rights politics as a supposed antidote to the social and political ills of contemporary capitalism. Marx's critique of Proudhon is directly applicable to this contemporary politics. The UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 is a foundational document for a bourgeois, market-based individualism and as such cannot provide a basis for a thoroughgoing critique of liberal or neoliberal capitalism. Whether it is politically useful to insist that the capitalist political order live up to its own foundational principles is one thing, but to imagine that this politics can lead to a radical displacement of a capitalist mode of production is, in Marx's view, a serious error.”

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Book:A Companion to Marx's Capital, Volume 1
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“It is not only the viability and variety of the seed that makes the harvest look plumpy. Sometimes, the soil must value the value of the seed. When the soil is not supportive, the seed's value becomes a waste!”

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Author:Israelmore Ayivor
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“As women we’re taught to believe that the more physically appealing we look, the more love we’ll receive in return. If we can just be the perfect cook, cleaner, lover, CEO hottie – well heck, if you don’t value yourself with all those attributes, then what’s it going to take to get your low blueberry muffin self-esteem recipe to rise every morning?”

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Book:Happy Am I. Holy Am I. Healthy Am I.
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“We know the value of the things for which we suffer. In this modern day and age, things and people are not actually losing value; but it is the knowledge of the value that is lost. Because in this day and age, everyone wants something that is easy. The easier, the better. And therefore all value is lost, and lost from all things that exist for which one has not toiled or suffered to some degree. All things valuable are worth suffering for. And indeed, the same thing can be multiplied in value, when you add your blood to it through suffering for it.”

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Author:C. JoyBell C.
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“There's poverty in wealth. If a man is wealthy without good health, is he not poor? If a man is wealthy without children, is he not poor? If a man is wealthy without God, is he not poor? If a man is wealthy without giving alms, is he not poor? If a man is wealthy without wisdom, is he not poor? Then there's a great lack in riches.”

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Author:Michael Bassey Johnson
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“When you look through a window you gasp at the beautiful tree in the backyard or the magical sunrise coming over the horizon, No one looks at a window and is taken away by the complexity of the transparency of millions of atoms joined together to form, from our perception of a crystal clear yet structural opening to the exterior, the same is with life, if you spend your whole life being a medium to enable others then you will be nothing but a sheet of glass, overused, underappreciated, and fragile to opportunity”

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Author:Addison Killebrew
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“ក្រោធខឹងជាលក្ខណៈបង្ហាញរបស់ចិត្តព្រៃដែលគ្មានការអប់រំ ។ សីលធម៌មិនមែនមានចំពោះមនុស្សគ្រប់រូបដោយគ្រាន់តែត្រឹមសម្ដែងអាកប្បករិយាខាងក្រៅនុះទេ ។ បែបបទទម្រង់ត្បិតត្បៀត ការកាត់ផ្សំទង្វើទាំងឡាយនៃសកម្មភាពខាងក្រៅហៅថា សុជីវធម៌ ។ សីលធម៌ គឺជាប្រក្រតីភាពនៃចិត្តដែលដុះស្អិតមកនូវការមិនបៀតបៀនទៅមនុស្សសត្វដទៃ ។ សីលធម៌មិនមែនជាការត្បិតត្បៀតសម្ដែងថាខ្លួនមានសេចក្ដីល្អនោះទេ ប៉ុន្តែសីលធម៌ជាលក្ខណៈដែលមនុស្សម្នាក់ប្រព្រឹត្តទង្វើទាំងឡាយដោយមិនចាំបាច់ត្បិតត្បៀត កាត់មុខ ផ្សំក្រោយ លាក់នេះ បង្ហាញនោះ នុះទេ ព្រោះសីលធម៌ជាសារជាតិនៃសភាវៈល្អដែលដុះមកនៅនឹងចិត្តយ៉ាងប្រក្រតី ។ សារជាតិនៃសីលធម៌ភាយនូវភាពញ័រៗសន្តិភាពចំពោះមនុស្សណាដែលចូលមកប្រាស្រ័យទាក់ទងជាមួយ ។ សីលធម៌អាចកើតមាន ឬបណ្ដុះឡើងបានដោយបន្ស៉ាំវានៅឯមូលដ្ឋានជម្រៅនៃចិត្តព្រៃរបស់អ្នកតាមវិធីវិបស្សនា និង មេត្ដាភាវនា ។ សីលធម៌មិនមែនអាចបណ្ដុះបាននៅមូលដ្ឋានត្រឹមតែខួរក្បាលនុះទេ ប៉ុន្តែត្រូវបន្ស៉ាំឲ្យចូលដល់ទីជម្រៅនៃចិត្ត ។ ការបង្រៀនឲ្យមានសេចក្ដីល្អត្រឹមតែមូលដ្ឋាននៃខួរក្បាល ហៅថា ការបង្រៀនឲ្យមានសុជីវធម៌ ។”

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Author:Thai Kimleang
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