And a sensible work strategy might be: surrender to the task but not to the taskmaster, become absorbed in the work itself but never absorb the work ethos.

Michael Foley

Mots clés work modern-life



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The four most influential moderns: Darwin, Marx, Freud, and (the productive) Einstein were scholars but not academics. It has always been hard to do genuine - and no perishable - work within institutions

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Mots clés einstein academia freud institutions darwin marxism modern-life modernity academics



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What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what they don't say about themselves.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Mots clés dating internet men-and-women dating-advice modern-life modernity bragging



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The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Mots clés slavery modern-society modern-life modernity modernity-is-a-sickness internet-addiction technology-addiction technology-enchantment



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My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Mots clés ethics law corruption government lawyers modern-society modern-life modernity modernity-is-a-sickness governement courts ethical-behaviour law-and-order business-ethics court-system the-supreme-court



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The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Mots clés fear death religion values modern modern-life narcissism modernity evangelism modern-values modernity-is-sickness



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As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth.

Edward Abbey

Mots clés depression modern-life cures depression-humor cure-diseases-without-medicines



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There are so many simple things getting unnoticed in me, it makes me feel I am a robot!

Vikram Roy

Mots clés philosophy modern-life philosophy-of-life city-life



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Sometime we forget to value the small things, that inspire us more than the large! We should learn from daily than planning stupid future.

Vikram Roy

Mots clés philosophy modern-life philosophy-of-life city-life



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When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away - even if it's only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Mots clés life writing write characters water modern-life creative-writing meaninglessness meaningless paralyzed



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