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Book cover for Spiritual Warfare (The Enlightenment Trilogy Book 3)
This was a very important lesson in universal doubt and distrust which I went on to further refine and appreciate, and which I now hold to be the fundamental guiding principle of an honest life: Guilty until proven innocent. False until ...more
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Michael   Lewis
“It’s hard to know how people select a course in life,” Amos said. “The big choices we make are practically random. The small choices probably tell us more about who we are. Which field we go into may depend on which high school teacher we happen to meet. Who we marry may depend on who happens to be around at the right time of life. On the other hand, the small decisions are very systematic. That I became a psychologist is probably not very revealing. What kind of psychologist I am may reflect deep traits.”
Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”
Michael Crichton

“By the time a student gets to college, he's spent a decade curating a bewilderingly diverse resume to prepare for a completely unknowable future. Come what may, he's ready--for nothing in particular.”
Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

Blaise Pascal
“All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit quiet in a room alone.”
Blaise Pascal

Ernest Hemingway
“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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