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“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
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“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
― The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
― The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”
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“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
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“Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”
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Kim’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Kim’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
184 books
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19 friends
140 books
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153 friends
51 books
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143 friends
15 books
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61 friends
93 books
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61 friends
874 books
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25 books
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126 friends
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37 friends
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Favorite Genres
Art, Biography, Classics, Contemporary, Fantasy, Fiction, History, Horror, Mystery, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, Science fiction, Self help, and athiest
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