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Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894

by Daniel James Brown (Goodreads Author)

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When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows . . .: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life

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The Transparency Society

by Byung-Chul Han

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How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen by David Brooks

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A person who is looking for beauty is likely to find wonders, while a person looking for threats will find danger. A person who beams warmth brings out the glowing sides of the people she meets, while a person who conveys formality can meet ...more

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“A person who is looking for beauty is likely to find wonders, while a person looking for threats will find danger. A person who beams warmth brings out the glowing sides of the people she meets, while a person who conveys formality can meet the same people and find them stiff and detached.”
― David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

tags: perception

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“We are thus eternally caught between the most diamantine rock and the hardest of places: loss of group-centred belief renders life chaotic, miserable, intolerable; presence of group-centred belief makes conflict with other groups inevitable.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

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“Being open-hearted is a prerequisite for being a full, kind, and wise human being.”
― David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

tags: humanity

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“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive, well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming, ‘Woo-hoo! What a ride.”
― Matt Fitzgerald, Diet Cults

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