“ The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum ”
Source: The Common Good
Categories: Acceptance Control People Opinion
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You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone. 
Do you know that you will also die? (I'm asking) because most people believe that other people die. Intellectually they know, but they think they are forever. 
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.