Nawaf Dhubaib

"Time is the school in which we learn, Time is the fire in which we burn." - Delmore Schwartz, @UniMelb alumni.

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I hear echoes from 2003.

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"The past is a place of learning, not a place of living."

- Roy T. Bennett

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"Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. Our commonsense intuitions can be mistaken, our preferences do not count. We do not live in a privileged reference frame."

Carl Sagan

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“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”

― Joe Klaas

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“Fame is proof that people are gullible.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?”

― George Carlin

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“Or, rather… let us be more simple and less vain.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”

―Voltaire

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“I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.”

― Rita Mae Brown

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"ليس الشرفُ أن تعلو على نَظيرِكَ من الناس، ولكنَّ الشرفَ الحقيقيّ أن تعلو اليومَ على نفسِكَ التي كنتَها بالأمس."

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”

― Ernest Hemingway

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Evolution is full of signaling.

Bright colors signal toxicity.
Peacock tails signal fitness.
Butterflies mimic poisonous species.

Fashion does exactly this.

Luxury watches.
Designer logos.
Military uniforms.
Academic robes.

The signal may reflect underlying status—or a bluff.

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As phenotype is the expression of a genotype interacting with its environment, fashion style is the expression of a mind interacting with its culture.

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“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”

― Helen Keller

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The world provides the chaos; you choose the response.

Your peace is a sovereign territory—nothing enters without your permission.

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“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”

― Mahatma Gandhi

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“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”

― Mahatma Gandhi

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“The unfed mind devours itself.”

― Gore Vidal

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“The shell must break before the bird can fly.”

― Alfred Tennyson

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“The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.”

― Kalu Ndukwe Kalu

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“#Money is a great servant but a bad master.”

― Francis Bacon