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I stop and observe their codes of behaviour. As Stefan explained to me, in this new world people are not strangers to each other. You talk to people you have never met open-heartedly, as if they are old friends; and they, in return, respond in the exact same way. They all have the same kind and relaxed attitude, the same naivety in their manners, the same benevolence, the same tact, the same warm camaraderie, as if they had all together attended a big, universal college in their childhood.
Chronicles From the Future
Paul Amadeus Dienach and Achilleas Sirigos
Alfred North Whitehead wrote, “Civilization advances by extending the number of operations we can perform without thinking about them.”
Atomic Habits
James Clear
Moreover, he professed that no one could be completely happy unless they lived a virtuous life, not because virtue was good in itself, but because it led to pleasurable consequences and the absence of pain and fear.
Philosophy 100 Essential Thinkers
Philip Stokes
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