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An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

by Ed Yong

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Things that I’ve never even thought about. This book definitely changes your perception of animal life." — Apr 08, 2023 12:24AM

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Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman

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“Achievement was worthy of praise and honor, but excessive achievement was pernicious and a threat to the state. However great a citizen might become, however great he might wish to become, the truest greatness of all still belonged to the Roman Republic itself”
― Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

tags: citizenship, history, rome

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“I don't have to listen to rumors about a man when I can judge him for myself.”
― Stephen King, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption

tags: judging, rumors, truth

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“You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

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“This is the essence of the Agricultural Revolution: the ability to keep more people alive under worse conditions.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

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“Culture tends to argue that it forbids only that which is unnatural. But from a biological perspective, nothing is unnatural. Whatever is possible is by definition also natural. A truly unnatural behaviour, one that goes against the laws of nature, simply cannot exist, so it would need no prohibition.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

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