I'm so stressed
Why should I celebrate when the year is doing its best to humiliate me on every opportunity?
Screw that, I'll not change my decisions.
If they try to force me into doing it, that's even a better signal that I must stick to what I decided.
Do you want me to go there and flip...
This is now almost a commonplace; It has been said before by numberless people, but it seems to me it has been realised by very few—and until it is realised to the fullest extent, we shall continue to live at intellectual cross purposes and waste the forces of our species needlessly and abundantly.
whereas they stand on slightly different grounds, use different terms for the same thing and express the same thing in different words. Logomachies, conflicts about words,—into such death-traps of effort those ardent spirits run and perish.
Most of the great controversies of the world, most of the wide religious differences that keep men apart, arise from this: from differences in their way of thinking. Men imagine they stand on the same ground and mean the same thing by the same words,
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