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“If you’re a naturalized U.S. citizen who follows the law, you are just as much a U.S. citizen as anyone born here. There’s no second-class version of citizenship in the eyes of the law. Terms like “non-assimilated citizen” are rhetorical, not legal—and they often reflect prejudice, not policy.”

By ChatGPT

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donotdestroy:

“In a recent Ditch the Label study, we spoke to 7,347 people about bullying. We asked respondents to define bullying and then later asked if, based on their own definition, they had ever bullied anybody. 14% of our overall sample, so that’s 1,239 people, said yes. What we then did was something that had never been done on this scale before; we asked them intimate questions about their lives, exploring things like stress and trauma, home lives, relationships and how they feel about themselves.”

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donotdestroy:

“There are different reasons why people bully, including wanting to dominate others and improve their social status, having low self-esteem and wanting to feel better about themselves, and lacking remorse or failing to recognize their behavior as a problem.”

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donotdestroy:

“I don’t really care so much what people say about me because it usually is a reflection of who they are. For example, if people wish I would sound like I used to sound, then it says more about them than it does me.”

Prince

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plagiarism

noun [ U ]

UK   /ˈpleɪ.dʒər.ɪ.zəm/ US   /ˈpleɪ.dʒɚ.ɪ.zəm/

the process or practice of using another person’s ideas or work and pretending that it is your own.

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donotdestroy:

“At the root of hypocrisy is a strong desire to be loved and accepted. The fear of humility and judgment is so powerful, that we use doublethink and cognitive dissonance to avoid facing ourselves.”

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donotdestroy:

“The value of art lies in its power to inspire, not in its price tag.”

— Unknown

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donotdestroy:

“The male ego can in some cases be tied to how and where a man sees his place in the world and whether he’s living up to expectations — his and those of society.

Cultural stereotypes for men can be intricately tied to both the inflation and deflation of the male ego. Some men measure themselves by the answers to the following questions:

Am I strong enough? Am I wealthy enough? Do I meet the traditional definition of masculinity? Do I attract women? Do I control things or people? Do people recognize me for these things and am I respected and revered for them?”

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donotdestroy:

“Insecure people put others down to raise themselves up.”

— Habeeb Akande

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donotdestroy:

“In order to understand what happens in your body when you dislike someone, you can start by trying to understand fear. As Robert Sapolsky writes in “Why Your Brain Hates Other People,” when we see someone who even looks different from us, “there is preferential activation of the amygdala,” which means the brain region associated with fear and aggression flares up. This visceral, emotional reaction can spark a long-term pattern of dislike when it’s validated by action: if you perceive that someone has hurt you, your fear of them becomes rational. Our negative feelings toward someone get stronger as bad experiences with them pile up, and these negative thoughts trigger the fight-or-flight response in our bodies.”

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donotdestroy:

Real Prosperity

A rich man asked Sengai to write something for the continued prosperity of his family so that it might be treasured from generation to generation.

Sengai obtained a large sheet of paper and wrote: “Father dies, son dies, grandson dies.”

The rich man became angry. “I asked you to write something for the happiness of my family! Why do you make such a joke of this?”

“No joke is intended,” explained Sengai. “If before you yourself die your son should die, this would grieve you greatly. If your grandson should pass away before your son, both of you would be broken-hearted. If your family, generation after generation, passes away in the order I have named, it will be the natural course of life. I call this real prosperity.” 

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“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are.”

– Kurt Cobain

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anti-natalist

adjective

UK   /ˌæn.tiˈneɪ.təl.ɪst/ US   /ˌæn.tiˈneɪ.t̬əl.ɪst/

believing or arguing that it is morally wrong to have children or that people should be encouraged not to have children.

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