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“I’m insatiably curious about human nature. I feel very lucky that as a writer I get to learn so much about it just to do my job right.”
Susan Cain
Curiosity
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Human Nature
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Writing
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Personal Insight
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Learning
2.
“Purification and redemption are such recurrent themes in ritual because there is a clear and ubiquitous need for them: we all do regrettable things as a result of our own circumstances, and new rituals are frequently invented in response to new circumstances.”
Susan Cain
Purification
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Redemption
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Rituals
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Human Nature
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Personal Growth
3.
“None of us have pure thoughts; we all live in glass houses.”
Mark Cuban
Self-awareness
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Honesty
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Vulnerability
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Reflection
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Human Nature
4.
“We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.”
Neil Gaiman
Knowledge
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Awareness
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Human Nature
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Denial
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Truth
5.
“I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the last sanctuary of the terminally inept.”
Neil Gaiman
Violence
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Incompetence
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Criticism
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Human Nature
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Empty Threats
6.
“I've never known anyone who was what he or she seemed; or at least, was only what he or she seemed. People carry worlds within them.”
Neil Gaiman
Identity
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Complexity
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Perception
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Human Nature
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Inner Worlds
7.
“Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. Truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.”
Neil Gaiman
Adulthood
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Perception
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Inner Child
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Maturity
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Human Nature
8.
“Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don't. I don't. People are much more complicated than that. It's true of everybody.”
Neil Gaiman
Identity
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Complexity
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Human Nature
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Perception
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Inner Self
9.
“I believe that anyone who claims to know what's going on will lie about the little things too.”
Neil Gaiman
Truth
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Honesty
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Skepticism
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Knowledge
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Human Nature
10.
“It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism.”
Neil Gaiman
Civilization
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Society
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Human Nature
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Fragility
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Social Order
11.
“It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.”
Neil Gaiman
Humanity
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History
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Morality
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Human Nature
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Perspective
12.
“The difference between us and a computer is that, the computer is blindingly stupid, but it is capable of being stupid many, many million times a second.”
Douglas Adams
Computers
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Intelligence
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Speed
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Human Nature
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Technology
13.
“Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.”
Douglas Adams
Ancestry
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Humor
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Human Nature
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Family
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Social Commentary
14.
“Time affords us the ability to blame past errors on others while whole heartedly pronouncing our futures successes.”
Douglas Adams
Time
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Blame
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Success
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Human Nature
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Perspective
15.
“In fact, he had always done the bare minimum of research necessary to support these myths. He was lazy, and essentially what he did was allow people's enthusiastic credulity to do the work for him.”
Douglas Adams
Laziness
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Deception
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Human Nature
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Belief
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Research
16.
“When the girl sitting at the next table looked away from a moment, Dirk leaned over and took her coffee. He knew that he was perfectly safe doing this because she would simply not be able to believe that this had happened.”
Douglas Adams
Audacity
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Perception
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Theft
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Humor
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Human Nature
17.
“Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.”
Douglas Adams
Trust
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Evolution
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Social Dynamics
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Brain Function
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Human Nature
18.
“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.”
Douglas Adams
Learning
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Human Nature
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Irony
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Experience
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Wisdom
19.
“It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
Douglas Adams
Politics
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Leadership
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Irony
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Power
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Human Nature
20.
“We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.”
Douglas Adams
Obsession
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Apathy
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Competition
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Human Nature
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Defeat
21.
“It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.”
Douglas Adams
Creativity
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Innovation
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Hindsight
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Genius
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Human Nature
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“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.”
Douglas Adams
Human Nature
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Loyalty
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Gratitude
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Cynicism
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Animals
23.
“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
Douglas Adams
Design
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Foolproofing
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Human Nature
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Humor
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Underestimation
24.
“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
Douglas Adams
Perspective
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Astronomy
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Human Nature
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Normality
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Cosmic Scale
25.
“It was odd, Kate reflected, that people who needed to bully you were the easiest to push around.”
Douglas Adams
Bullying
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Psychology
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Human Nature
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Irony
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Reflection
26.
“We all like to congregate at boundary conditions. Where land meets water. Where earth meets air. Where bodies meet mind. Where space meets time. We like to be on one side, and look at the other.”
Douglas Adams
Boundaries
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Human Nature
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Perspective
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Philosophy
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Observation
27.
“Nobody got murdered before lunch. But nobody. People weren't up to it. You needed a good lunch to get both the blood-sugar and blood-lust levels up.”
Douglas Adams
Humor
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Murder
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Food
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Timing
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Human Nature
28.
“One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious.”
Douglas Adams
Human Nature
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Observation
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Repetition
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Humor
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Alien Perspective
29.
“When people you greatly admire appear to be thinking deep thoughts, they probably are thinking about lunch.”
Douglas Adams
Humor
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Perception
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Admiration
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Reality
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Human Nature
30.
“People who need to bully you are the easiest to push around.”
Douglas Adams
Bullying
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Psychology
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Strength
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Weakness
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Human Nature
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