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According to science, out of the seven billion people on this planet, only 150 matter to you at any given point of your life.

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Seriously. Understanding FOMO can save you heartache and dollars.

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Whether we admit it or not, we are constantly thinking about how others think of us if we were to say or do a certain something.

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And none of it matters: that’s the best and worst part, whatever the topics or range of topics, the crossfire is totally inconsequential.

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Fortunately for the ugly among us, many parents who are kind and loving are also not so beautiful. This means that many people, even very attractive ones, grow up predisposed to think very generously of not-so-perfect people.

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It seems to me that it’s a two-party dominated political system that benefits from voting as it’s designed to only benefit the majority. I wonder what government policy on health care, or education, or disability services would look like if those deciding on policy had to make decisions that didn’t ignore sections of the population?

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While cosmologists look at outer space with massive instruments and difficult calculations using mathematics, Buddhists look at inner space with mindfulness and concentration.

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Sometimes the whole of who we perceive ourselves to be is nothing more than how we fit into the contexts of what we mean to other people.

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It matters more that you can agree and prove what you’re already taught than that you can innovate that idea — disagree — and genuinely learn to think for yourself. It matters more that you can understand what already is than you can philosophize what could be. It matters more that you can memorize than you can create.

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Courage is the fruit of conviction; it is the projection of the heart’s faith upon the other senses , for courage cannot exist without a love worth defending, a belief worth fighting for, an idea worth sacrificing for and a truth so profound that one would rather die in its search than live in ignorance.